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Ole Salem Estates, South Carolina

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

Ole Salem Estates 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

176 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 176 fires within 5 miles of Ole Salem Estates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 576 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 4 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 burning81
Missing data/not specified/undetermined58
Equipment and vehicle use8
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Natural7
Smoking7
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
21 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 1999Naturalunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 1998Smokingunder 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

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Ole Salem Estates: 5 unknowns, 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Iron, Sand. 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
Saluda Lake MineSandUnknownSedimentary
Greenville MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hendrix PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
Hendrix PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Thomas Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
W.F. Thomas Sand CompanySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Zupan Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
Zupan Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

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
Beverly Hills0.8 miles16
Dacusville1.6 miles16
Hendricks2.4 miles16
Montague3.6 miles16
Georgetown3.8 miles16
Briargate4.3 miles16
Heathwood4.7 miles16
Longcreek4.9 miles16

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 Q122543505The 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 1243471. 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.