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Pecan Terrace, South Carolina

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Greenville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29605. The Survey maps it on the Greenville quadrangle.

Pecan Terrace within Greenville County

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

116 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Pecan Terrace between 1992 and 2020, burning about 375 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 17 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/undetermined47
Debris and open burning25
Arson/incendiarism17
Equipment and vehicle use11
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes2
Smoking1
Natural1

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
6 September 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2009Misuse of fire by a minor6.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 2000Debris and open burning4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greenville 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 Pecan Terrace: 4 past producers, 3 prospects, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Titanium, Thorium, Iron, Thorium, Titanium. 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
Charles BrooksIron, Titanium, ThoriumUnknownPlacer , Modern , Fluvial
Placer Prospect 9-PIron, Thorium, TitaniumUnknownPlacer , Modern , Fluvial
Vulcan Materials Co. S. QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Willimon MineMica, KaolinPast Producer
Boling MineMicaPast ProducerPegmatite
Boling MineMicaPast Producer
R S Berry ProspectMicaProspect
W F Holloway & J J Brown ProspectsMicaProspect
Will Cleveland ProspectMicaProspect

Every working recorded in Greenville 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
Park Lane Terrace0.4 miles14
East Gantt0.4 miles14
Fairfield Acres0.6 miles14
Royal Oaks0.8 miles14
Roseman Heights0.9 miles14
South Forest Estates1.1 miles14
Athelone Heights1.2 miles14
Donaldson Heights1.3 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1245273. 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.