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Moody Cove, South Carolina

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Mountain Rest census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29686. It stands on Cantrell Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tamassee quadrangle.

Moody Cove within Oconee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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

52 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Moody Cove between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,212 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined14
Debris and open burning12
Arson/incendiarism9
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 1998Natural5.0 acresFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsDODGE MOUNTAIN
8 July 1993Natural1,050 acresChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestBIG MOUNTAIN
4 July 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsWINDING STAIRS
17 July 2009Natural7.3 acresChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestREED CREEK
8 June 2002Natural1.0 acresFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsCANTRELL MOUNTAIN
6 June 2002Naturalunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 May 2001Smokingunder an acreFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsPOST
3 May 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oconee County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Moody Cove: 3 prospects, 3 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Marble, Dimension, Silver, Clay. 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
Unnamed Clay ProspectClayProspect
(Facility) Unnamed Silver Smelter SiteSilverPlant
Marble ProspectMarble, DimensionProspect
Marble ProspectMarble, DimensionProspect
Unnamed Silver MineSilverPast Producer
Jesse Lay MineGoldUnknownVein
Jesse Lay MineGoldPast Producer
Kuhtman MineGoldUnknownVein
Kuhtman MineGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Oconee 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
Cheohee2.4 miles19
Tamassee4.5 miles19
Camp Oak5.5 miles20
Russell (historical)5.6 miles18
Salem5.8 miles19
Flat Shoals5.9 miles20
Boones Creek6.4 miles19
Long Bottom Ford6.5 miles18

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 Q122568308The 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 1231557. 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.