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Pauline, South Carolina

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Pauline census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29374. It stands on James Branch. The Survey maps it on the Glenn Springs quadrangle. 209 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 761 feet above sea level.

Pauline within Spartanburg County

On record in Pauline

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

63 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Pauline between 1992 and 2017, burning about 272 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Debris and open burning16
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
29 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2002Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 August 1999Natural11 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth 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

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Pauline: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Fairforest Creek Sand MineSandUnknownSedimentary

Every working recorded in Spartanburg County

Storms near this place

17 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pauline in 17 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 lightning. 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
June 2001LightningPauline$20,000Lightning sparked a fire which destroyed an unoccupied, wooden frame house.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindPauline-County comms reported a tree and power lines blown down in the Pauline area.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindPauline-County comms reported multiple trees blown down in the Pauline area.
April 2012HailPauline-Golf ball size hail fell along highway 215 at Foster Mill Circle.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindPauline-Multiple trees were blown down along highway 56 south of Spartanburg.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindPauline-Numerous trees were blown down in areas south of Pauline, with trees blocking Riddle Rd, Marshall Tucker Rd, Blackstock Rd, and Gwinn Mill Rd.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindPauline-Several trees and power lines were blown down, and part of a barn roof was damaged on highway 56 near Pauline.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindPauline-Several trees were blown down along Shiloh Church Rd.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindPauline-Two trees blown down.
November 2000Thunderstorm WindPauline-Some trees were blown down, with at least one falling onto a house.
July 2012HailPauline-no account filed
September 2009HailPauline-no account filed
June 2008HailPauline-no account filed
January 2006HailPauline-no account filed
August 2003HailPauline-no account filed
July 1997HailPauline-no account filed
August 1997Thunderstorm WindPauline-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
Golightly1.8 miles14
Glenn Springs2.2 miles14
Foster Mill2.8 miles14
Stone Station3.0 miles14
Walnut Grove3.5 miles14
Smiths Tavern4.1 miles14
White Stone Springs (historical)4.2 miles14
Woodwind4.5 miles18

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.

Wikipedia article on PaulineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3473700The 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 1250040. 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.