Mount Croghan, South Carolina
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Mount Croghan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29727. It stands on Mill Branch. The Survey maps it on the Mount Croghan quadrangle. 135 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 479 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMount Croghan fell from 195 to 135 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 195 | |
| 2020 | 135 | -60 (-31%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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
- 1970 USGS Mt. Croghan quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
167 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 167 fires within 5 miles of Mount Croghan between 1992 and 2019, burning about 641 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 30 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 | 62 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 41 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 30 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 15 |
| Smoking | 9 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 August 1999 | Smoking | 3.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 August 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Mount Croghan: 7 unknowns, 2 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unidentified Sand Mine | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | Sedimentary | |
| Unidentified Sand Mine | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | Sedimentary | |
| Williams Sand | Sand | Unknown | Sedimentary | |
| Williams Sand | Sand | Unknown | Sedimentary | |
| Edgeworth and Brewer Mine | Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Edgeworth and Brewer Mine | Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Edgeworth-Brewer Mine | Gold | Unknown | 1856 | |
| Hendrix Mine | Gold | Unknown | 1856 | |
| Hendrix Prospect | Gold | Prospect | ||
| Oro Mine | Gold | Unknown | Stratabound Discordant |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maynards | 2.2 miles | 13 | |
| Ruby | 2.9 miles | 12 | |
| Wexford | 3.6 miles | 13 | |
| Lees Crossroads | 3.7 miles | 12 | |
| Hornsboro | 3.8 miles | 13 | |
| Maysville | 4.3 miles | 13 | |
| Mangums (historical) | 6.0 miles | 13 | |
| Catoe (historical) | 6.1 miles | 12 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Mount Croghan | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2862050 | The 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 1249566. 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.






