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Pacolet Mills, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Pacolet census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29373. It stands on Browns Branch. The Survey maps it on the Pacolet Mills quadrangle. It stands 541 feet above sea level.

Pacolet Mills within Spartanburg County

On record in Pacolet Mills

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 4 records

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

112 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Pacolet Mills between 1992 and 2017, burning about 507 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 1 was 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/undetermined62
Debris and open burning27
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking4
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Arson/incendiarism1

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
30 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2002Arson/incendiarism20 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 1999Smoking10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spartanburg 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 Pacolet Mills: 3 producers, 3 unknowns, 2 past producers, 1 plant. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Feldspar, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper. 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
Deaton's Sand PitSandUnknownSedimentary
Hammet Mine, Crocker MineGold, CopperUnknown1818, 1825, 1857
Pacolet MillFeldsparPlant
Pacolet MineFeldsparProducer
Pacolet QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerIgneous
Pacolet QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hammet Grove MineGoldPast ProducerMetamorphic Stratform
Hammet MineGoldPast Producer
Nuckols and Norris MinesGoldUnknownVein

Every working recorded in Spartanburg County

Storms near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pacolet Mills in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2020Thunderstorm WindPacolet Mills-County comms reported trees blown down off Granite St.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindPacolet Mills-Trees were blown down on highway 150 near the Cherokee County line.
April 2006HailPacolet Mills-no account filed
June 1998HailPacolet Mills-no account filed
June 1998Tornado (F0)Pacolet Mills-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Pacolet Park0.1 miles13
Central Pacolet0.7 miles13
Maryville0.9 miles15
Pacolet1.9 miles15
Calico2.9 miles15
White Stone4.2 miles15
White Stone Springs (historical)5.0 miles14
Sundance5.2 miles15

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 Q49359751The 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 1231621. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.