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Moffitsville, South Carolina

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Iva census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29655. It stands on East Prong Little Generostee Creek. The Survey maps it on the Iva quadrangle.

Moffitsville within Anderson 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.

Fires near this place

125 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Moffitsville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 523 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 11 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 burning46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined40
Arson/incendiarism11
Equipment and vehicle use11
Smoking7
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony1

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
4 September 2010Debris and open burning1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.5 acresSouth 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

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Moffitsville: 9 prospects, 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Feldspar. 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
Cooley MineMica, FeldsparPast Producer
Bell ProspectMicaProspect
Ben Martin MineMicaPast Producer1944
Ben Martin MineMicaPast Producer
Fretwell South ProspectMicaProspect
Fretwell South ProspectMicaProspect
J H Craft ProspectMicaProspect
J M Skelton ProspectMicaProspect
Keown MineMicaProspect
McKee 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
Barnes Station2.6 miles14
Iva2.8 miles14
Starr6.1 miles14
Deans7.8 miles14
Storeville (historical)8.4 miles12
Holland Store8.7 miles15
Flat Rock9.8 miles14
Allendale10.0 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1236825. 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.