North Hills, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Spartanburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29316. It stands on Little Shoally Creek. The Survey maps it on the Valley Falls quadrangle.

North Hills within Spartanburg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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.

1953 USGS Charlotte quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Charlotte quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Cowpens quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1960 USGS Charlotte quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Charlotte quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Valley Falls quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Gastonia quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Gastonia quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

168 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 168 fires within 5 miles of North Hills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 550 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined	86
Debris and open burning	31
Misuse of fire by a minor	17
Arson/incendiarism	11
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Fireworks	1
Other causes	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 September 1997	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2014	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1998	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 2011	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spartanburg 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 North Hills: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	North Spartanburg	Titanium, Iron	Unknown	Placer , Modern , Fluvial

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Shoally Creek	0.3 miles	13
Woodcreek	0.4 miles	13
Northbrook Park	0.5 miles	13
Canterbury Heights	0.6 miles	13
Ferndale	0.7 miles	13
Mountainbrook	1.0 miles	13
Quail Ridge	1.1 miles	13
Valley Falls	1.3 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1248449. 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.