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New Prospect, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Fingerville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29322. The Survey maps it on the Fingerville West quadrangle.

New Prospect within Spartanburg County

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

138 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of New Prospect between 1992 and 2019, burning about 496 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined59
Debris and open burning47
Arson/incendiarism13
Smoking5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes2
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution20 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2016Debris and open burning1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution1.2 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2018Naturalunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2005Debris and open burning1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2007Smokingunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spartanburg County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of New Prospect: 3 prospects, 3 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Sand, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Mica. 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
E W. Foster ProspectMicaProspect
Inman QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerMetamorphic
Mcmillan MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
Avery ProspectIronProspect
North Pacolet River MineSandUnknownSedimentary
North Pacolet SandSandUnknownSedimentary
Senia ProspectIronProspect

Every working recorded in Spartanburg County

Storms near this place

9 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Prospect in 9 storm reports between 2010 and 2026: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2022Thunderstorm WindNew Prospect$2,000County comms and emergency manager reported a tree blown down across Highway 9, trees down along McSwain Rd, and minor roof damage to a structure on Little Africa Rd.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindNew Prospect-Utility company reported trees blown down on power lines and causing an outage along Melvin Hill Rd.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindNew Prospect-County comms reported a tree blown down on Highway 9, just north of Highway 11. Fire dept reported trees blown down at Church St and Highway 11, on Rainbow Lake Rd, and on Cannon Ford Rd.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindNew Prospect-A tree was blown down on highway 9 near Meredith Rd.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindNew Prospect-Trees and large limbs were blown down on Melvin Hill Rd near highway 9.
May 2013HailNew Prospect-Nickel size hail was reported near Lake Bowen.
January 2012HailNew Prospect-Quarter size hail fell along highway 9 near the North Carolina border.
March 2010HailNew Prospect-Nickel size hail was reported on highway 9 near the state line.
May 2011HailNew Prospect-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Spartanburg 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
Bryants Store (historical)1.2 miles15
Clark Estates1.6 miles15
Tidmans Place1.7 miles15
Brown Arrow1.7 miles15
Fingerville2.0 miles15
North Ridge2.2 miles15
Little Africa2.6 miles15
Woodfin2.7 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.

Wikipedia article on New ProspectAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22073118The 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 1225016. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.