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Mount View, South Carolina

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Tigerville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29687. It stands on Mush Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tigerville quadrangle.

Mount View within Greenville County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

111 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Mount View between 1993 and 2020, burning about 366 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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 burning47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Equipment and vehicle use12
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural1
Fireworks1
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
5 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 July 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 July 2009Debris and open burning8.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 July 2000Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greenville County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Mount View: 4 past producers, 3 producers, 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zirconium. 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
L E Stringer ProspectMicaProspect
Sandy Flat QuarryGranite, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducerMetamorphic
TigerVermiculiteUnknownMetamorphosed Igneous Intrusion
Tigerville ProspectZirconiumOccurrence
Rabun QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Sandy Flats QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cureton MineGoldPast Producer
Westmoreland MineGoldPast ProducerVein Some Placer Work
Westmoreland MineGoldPast Producer
Wild Cat MineGoldUnknownVein

Every working recorded in Greenville 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
Locust Hill1.7 miles17
Sandy Flat2.6 miles11
Tigerville2.6 miles17
Taho (historical)2.8 miles17
Blue Ridge2.8 miles17
Lendaw2.9 miles17
Bellvue3.5 miles17
Marydell (historical)4.1 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231569. 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.