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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.

Mount Croghan within Chesterfield County

Population over time

2 figures

Mount 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.

YearPeople Change
2010195
2020135-60 (-31%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

167 since 1992

Regional 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 burning62
Missing data/not specified/undetermined41
Arson/incendiarism30
Equipment and vehicle use15
Smoking9
Natural7
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
29 September 2019Debris and open burning10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2003Debris and open burning1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2018Debris and open burning4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 1999Smoking3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chesterfield County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unidentified Sand MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
Unidentified Sand MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
Williams SandSandUnknownSedimentary
Williams SandSandUnknownSedimentary
Edgeworth and Brewer MineGoldPast Producer
Edgeworth and Brewer MineGoldPast Producer
Edgeworth-Brewer MineGoldUnknown1856
Hendrix MineGoldUnknown1856
Hendrix ProspectGoldProspect
Oro MineGoldUnknownStratabound Discordant

Every working recorded in Chesterfield 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
Maynards2.2 miles13
Ruby2.9 miles12
Wexford3.6 miles13
Lees Crossroads3.7 miles12
Hornsboro3.8 miles13
Maysville4.3 miles13
Mangums (historical)6.0 miles13
Catoe (historical)6.1 miles12

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 CroghanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2862050The 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.