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North Hills, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Easley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29640. It stands on Mud Dog Branch. The Survey maps it on the Easley quadrangle.

North Hills within Pickens County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

253 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 253 fires within 5 miles of North Hills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 510 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 15 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 burning91
Missing data/not specified/undetermined81
Misuse of fire by a minor34
Arson/incendiarism15
Equipment and vehicle use11
Smoking5
Natural5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1
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
7 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2017Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Smoking1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pickens County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of North Hills: 4 producers, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Iron. 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
EasleyTitanium, IronUnknown
Farrs Bridge Road DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Liberty Beverly QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Beverly QuarryGranite, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducerMetamorphic
Liberty QuarryGranite, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer1908

Every working recorded in Pickens 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
Marshall Heights0.5 miles16
Burdine Springs0.7 miles16
Holly Hill0.7 miles16
Monte Vista0.8 miles16
Easley1.0 miles16
Canaan Land1.0 miles16
Glenwood1.7 miles16
Arial1.7 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1243467. 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.