Old Orchid, South Carolina

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 8 records

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

• Nation Ford Roadlisted 2007 · 0.8 miles away
• John M. White Houselisted 1985 · 0.8 miles away
• Thornwell-Elliott Houselisted 1992 · 0.8 miles away
• Mills Houselisted 1992 · 0.8 miles away
• Fort Mill Downtown Historic Districtlisted 1992 · 0.8 miles away
• Wilson Houselisted 1992 · 0.9 miles away
• Spratt Cemeterylisted 2007 · 0.2 miles away
• Fort Mill Manufacturing Company Mill No. 2listed 2025 · 0.7 miles away

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.

• 1905 USGS Charlotte quadrangle1:62500
• 1905 USGS Charlotte quadrangle1:48000
• 1907 USGS Charlotte quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1941 USGS Charlotte quadrangle1:125000
• 1942 USGS Charlotte quadrangle1:100000
• 1942 USGS Charlotte quadrangle1:125000
• 1953 USGS Charlotte quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1954 USGS Charlotte quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1960 USGS Charlotte quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Charlotte quadrangle1:250000
• 1968 USGS Fort Mill quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1976 USGS Fort Mill quadrangle1:24000
• 1985 USGS Charlotte quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1993 USGS Fort Mill quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Old Orchid between 1992 and 2019, burning about 186 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Fort Mill
• Kanawha Hills
• Riverview
• Whiteville Park
• Cedarwood
• Nauvassee (historical)

Every fire recorded in York County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Old Orchid: 3 unknowns, 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Mica, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in York County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1233836. 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.