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Melbourne Heights, South Carolina

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Anderson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29621. It stands on Cox Creek. The Survey maps it on the Anderson North quadrangle.

Melbourne Heights within Anderson County

On record in Melbourne Heights

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

90 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Melbourne Heights between 1992 and 2020, burning about 288 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined30
Debris and open burning23
Arson/incendiarism12
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2009Debris and open burning2.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2010Smoking6.1 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 August 1999Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
1 August 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Anderson County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Melbourne Heights: 3 prospects, 2 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Mica, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Titanium, Iron, Iron, Titanium. 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
Beaver CreekTitanium, IronUnknownVein Outcrop Exposure
Mcconnell ProspectMica, GemstoneProspect
SmithIron, TitaniumUnknownMagnetite Vein
Broadway MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Tribble QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerMetamorphic
Cliff Webb ProspectMicaProspect
J A Jones ProspectMicaProspect

Every working recorded in Anderson 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
Allen Hills0.3 miles17
Kingsley Hills0.4 miles17
Woodbridge0.7 miles17
Park Place0.7 miles17
Williamsburg Manor0.7 miles17
Heritage Hills0.8 miles17
Colony Hill0.8 miles17
Windsor Place0.8 miles17

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 Q122562540The 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 1253495. 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.