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Mount Gallagher, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Princeton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29692. The Survey maps it on the Ware Shoals East quadrangle.

Mount Gallagher within Laurens County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

99 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Mount Gallagher between 1992 and 2020, burning about 421 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined43
Debris and open burning25
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony3
Other causes2
Natural1

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
5 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1999Arson/incendiarism18 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2015Misuse of fire by a minor1.6 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 1998Misuse of fire by a minor1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use37 acresSouth Carolina Forestry CommissionRIVERFORK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Laurens County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Mount Gallagher: 7 past producers, 4 producers, 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Vermiculite, Limestone, General, Gold. 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
Master's KilnLimestone, General, Marble, DimensionPast Producer1908
Masters KilnLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerMetamorphic
Mt. Olive ProspectGoldOccurrence
Raeburn Creek ProspectGoldPast ProducerVein
Raeburn Creek ProspectGoldProspect
Raysors KilnLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerMetamorphic
Cook 1a and 1bVermiculitePast ProducerMetamorphosed Igneous Intrusion
Ezell MineVermiculiteUnknownMetamorphosed Igneous Intrusion
Henderson MineVermiculitePast Producer1983
Maddens-KernalsVermiculitePast ProducerMetamorphosed Igneous Intrusion

Every working recorded in Laurens 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
Owens (historical)1.7 miles13
Mount Olive2.1 miles13
Baldwin2.4 miles13
Poplar Springs3.5 miles13
Ekom3.5 miles13
Brewerton3.7 miles13
Simpson (historical)5.8 miles13
Austin (historical)5.8 miles13

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 Q122592680The 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 1224709. 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.