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Meeting Street, South Carolina

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Pleasant Lane census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29824. The Survey maps it on the Owdoms quadrangle.

Meeting Street within Edgefield County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

109 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Meeting Street between 1992 and 2020, burning about 477 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 10 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Debris and open burning34
Equipment and vehicle use15
Arson/incendiarism10
Natural7
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minor5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Edgefield County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Meeting Street: 4 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Granite, Pyrophyllite, Andalusite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Crystal Blue Quarry No. 2GranitePast Producer
Faulkner Mountain Pyrophillite ProspectPyrophyllite, AndalusiteUnknownMetamorphic
Faulkner Mountain ProspectGoldOccurrence
Landrum MineGoldPast Producer
Landrum and Quattlebaum Mine Southern MineGoldPast ProducerVein
Quattlebaum MineGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Edgefield County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Tompkins Cross Roads1.4 miles11
Pleasant Lane3.7 miles11
Mathais Crossroads4.7 miles11
Limestone6.2 miles15
Lime Stone (historical)6.3 miles15
Cleora9.5 miles16
Sullivan Crossroads10.0 miles15
Brunson Crossroads10.1 miles16

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122556159The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1252034. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.