Millwood, South Carolina

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Calhoun Falls census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29628. It stands on Calhoun Branch. The Survey maps it on the Heardmont quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Millwood within Abbeville County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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.

1893 USGS Elberton quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Heardmont quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1979 USGS Abbeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

99 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Millwood (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 324 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 6 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
Debris and open burning	36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Arson/incendiarism	6
Natural	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	3

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	4.6 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020ELBERT006
19 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-ELBERT-005
15 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Abbeville County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Millwood (historical): 1 plant, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Titanium, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Calhoun Falls	Titanium, Iron	Unknown	Outcrop Exposure
	Dravo-Groves Rock Processing Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant

Every working recorded in Abbeville 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Hester	2.1 miles	14
Calhoun Falls	2.5 miles	14
Latimer	5.0 miles	12
Dresden (historical)	5.7 miles	14
Rocky River (historical)	7.2 miles	14
Chesnut Hill (historical)	7.4 miles	14
Charleston Crossroads	7.6 miles	13
Monterey (historical)	8.4 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1706232. 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.