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Murphys Estates, South Carolina

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Southeast Edgefield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29860. The Survey maps it on the North Augusta quadrangle. 1,719 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 571 feet above sea level.

Murphys Estates within Edgefield County

Population over time

2 figures

Murphys Estates grew from 1,441 to 1,719 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
20101,441
20201,719+278 (+19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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

270 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 270 fires within 5 miles of Murphys Estates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,189 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 24 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/undetermined119
Debris and open burning74
Misuse of fire by a minor27
Arson/incendiarism24
Equipment and vehicle use9
Other causes5
Natural5
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1

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 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1999Naturalunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2019Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Edgefield County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Murphys Estates: 2 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
G.L.Williams PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hillside Spring MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Williams Landscaping Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary

Every working recorded in Edgefield 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
Huntington Estates1.8 miles20
Crafton (historical)3.1 miles17
Highview (historical)3.9 miles17
Lenoir (historical)3.9 miles25
Lake Forest Estates3.9 miles20
Poverty Hill4.4 miles25
Morgana5.8 miles25
New Richmond (historical)5.8 miles25

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 Murphys EstatesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2801025The 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 1852679. 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.