Monarch, South Carolina

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Union census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29379. The Survey maps it on the Union East quadrangle.

Monarch within Union County

On record in Monarch

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.

East Main Street-Douglass Heights Historic Districtlisted 1989 · 1.0 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1941 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Union East quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

222 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 222 fires within 5 miles of Monarch between 1992 and 2020, burning about 450 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined	121
Debris and open burning	54
Misuse of fire by a minor	14
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Arson/incendiarism	8
Natural	5
Smoking	4
Other causes	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Fireworks	1

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
4 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Misuse of fire by a minor	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1997	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2002	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2001	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union 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
New Hill	0.7 miles	12
Union	1.5 miles	12
Carem	2.1 miles	12
South Hills	2.2 miles	12
Sardis	3.8 miles	12
Goat Alley	4.2 miles	12
Gregory (historical)	4.5 miles	12
Buffalo	4.6 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1246707. 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.