Melrose Heights, South Carolina

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 12 of 13 shown

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

• J. Davis Powell Houselisted 2012 · 0.2 miles away
• Melrose Heights-Oak Lawn-Fairview Historic Districtlisted 2016 · 0.2 miles away
• Old Shandon Historic Districtlisted 2003 · 0.3 miles away
• Forest Hills Historic Districtlisted 2007 · 0.4 miles away
• Holman's Barber Shoplisted 2021 · 0.5 miles away
• George R. Price Houselisted 1998 · 0.6 miles away
• Raymond Price Houselisted 2007 · 0.7 miles away
• Woodrow Memorial Presbyterian Churchlisted 1979 · 0.9 miles away
• Good Samaritan-Waverly Hospitallisted 2008 · 0.9 miles away
• Middleburg Park Historic Districtlisted 2025 · 0.8 miles away
• Ruth's Beauty Parlorlisted 2020 · 0.9 miles away
• Five Points Historic Districtlisted 2019 · 0.9 miles away

Every listing in Richland County

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.

• 1904 USGS Columbia quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1941 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1947 USGS Columbia North quadrangle1:24000
• 1948 USGS Columbia North quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1960 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1963 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1972 USGS Columbia North quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1986 USGS Newberry quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1997 USGS Columbia North quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Melrose Heights between 1992 and 2020, burning about 494 acres in total. None 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Forest Hills
• Waverly
• Allen Benedict Court
• Barhamville Estates
• Belleview
• Booker Washington Heights

Every fire recorded in Richland County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Melrose Heights: 8 past producers, 5 producers, 3 unknowns. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zirconium, Thorium, Titanium, Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Richland County

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

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1249224. 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.