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Mount Willing, South Carolina

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Batesburg-Leesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29138. It stands on Corley Branch. The Survey maps it on the Denny quadrangle.

Mount Willing within Saluda County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

137 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 137 fires within 5 miles of Mount Willing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 248 acres in total. 6 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
Debris and open burning56
Missing data/not specified/undetermined46
Equipment and vehicle use16
Arson/incendiarism9
Natural6
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1
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
9 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saluda County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Mount Willing: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Nickel, Copper. 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
Culbreath MineGold, Nickel, CopperUnknown1908

Every working recorded in Saluda 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
Emory2.2 miles11
Merchant (historical)2.3 miles12
Jones Crossroads2.6 miles11
Richland3.8 miles11
Traus (historical)4.3 miles11
Denny4.9 miles12
Saluda5.5 miles12
Blacks6.1 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1232603. 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.