Olympia, 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.

• Olympia Armorylisted 1995 · 0.1 miles away
• Olympia Mill Schoollisted 2018 · 0.2 miles away
• Olympia Union Halllisted 2017 · 0.5 miles away
• Olympia Milllisted 2005 · 0.6 miles away
• Granby Mill Village Historic Districtlisted 1993 · 0.7 miles away
• Richland Cotton Milllisted 1983 · 0.8 miles away
• Union Stationlisted 1973 · 1.0 miles away
• Olympia Mill Village Historic Districtlisted 2018 · 0.2 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.

• 1944 USGS Edmund quadrangle1:62500
• 1954 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
• 1972 USGS Southwest Columbia quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1983 USGS Aiken quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Southwest Columbia quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 131 fires within 5 miles of Olympia between 1992 and 2019, burning about 612 acres in total. 1 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.

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:

• Arthurtown
• Hollywood
• Wales Garden
• Rosewood
• Shandon
• Bluff Estates

Every fire recorded in Richland County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Olympia: 6 producers, 5 past producers, 3 unknowns. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zirconium, Thorium, 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.

Every working recorded in Richland County

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

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1249983. 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.