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Musical Heights, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the York census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29745. The Survey maps it on the Tirzah quadrangle.

Musical Heights within York County

On record in Musical Heights

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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 Musical Heights between 1992 and 2019, burning about 216 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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 burning34
Equipment and vehicle use9
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking1
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
30 September 2005Debris and open burning1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2002Smoking2.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in York 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 Musical Heights: 5 unknowns, 4 past producers, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sulfur, Barium-Barite. 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
Imc Custom Grinding/ York, S.C.Barium-BariteUnknown
Little Wilson MineGold, Iron, Sulfur, CopperUnknown1904, 1905
Love No. 1 ProspectGold, SulfurProspect
Project 317Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Wallace MineGold, SulfurPast Producer
York County MinesStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Little Wilson MineGoldPast Producer
Little Wison MineGoldUnknown
Love Mine-#1GoldUnknown1906
Tate MineGoldUnknownVein

Every working recorded in York 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
Pineview0.6 miles15
Wooded Valley0.8 miles15
Forest Hills0.9 miles15
Poplar Acres1.1 miles14
York1.3 miles15
English Gardens1.3 miles14
Lincoln Estates1.6 miles14
Delphia3.3 miles15

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 Q122543567The 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 1233811. 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.