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Mink Creek Estates, South Carolina

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Greer census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29651. It stands on Frohawk Creek. The Survey maps it on the Greer quadrangle.

Mink Creek Estates within Spartanburg County

On record in Mink Creek Estates

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 1 record

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

Fires near this place

69 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Mink Creek Estates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 282 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined38
Debris and open burning18
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
15 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use2.8 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
1 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 June 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spartanburg County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Mink Creek Estates: 3 occurrences, 3 unknowns, 3 past producers, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Iron, Mica, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Clark-Tyger Sand MineSandUnknownSedimentary
H L Shelton DepositMicaOccurrence
Rester MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
I L Tigert ProspectIronOccurrence
Mills Herren ProspectIronProspect
Stanley Adkins ProspectIronOccurrence
Briggs ProspectGoldUnknownVein
Briggs ProspectGoldProspect
Mcbee PlacerGoldPast Producer
Wolf & Tyger PlacerGoldUnknownPlacer

Every working recorded in Spartanburg 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
Lakewood Hills0.7 miles14
Zoar Heights0.8 miles14
Fairway Estates0.9 miles14
Crestview Hills1.0 miles14
Apalache1.2 miles14
Pinecrest1.2 miles14
Brookdale1.6 miles14
Woodland Forest1.7 miles14

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 Q122558446The 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 1248404. 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.