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Piercetown, South Carolina

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Williamston-Pelzer census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29697. The Survey maps it on the Piercetown quadrangle.

Piercetown within Anderson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

90 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Piercetown between 1992 and 2019, burning about 278 acres in total. None started naturally. 15 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/undetermined31
Debris and open burning21
Arson/incendiarism15
Equipment and vehicle use9
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1

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
9 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2005Arson/incendiarism1.8 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use2.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.7 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Anderson County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Piercetown: 3 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Gold. 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
Henderson ProspectGoldPast ProducerVein
Burgess MineMicaPast Producer1889, 1944
Burgess MineMicaPast Producer
D J Tucker DepositMicaOccurrence

Every working recorded in Anderson 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
White Plains3.4 miles17
Windward Trail4.3 miles17
Five Forks4.4 miles16
Beaver Creek4.9 miles17
White Oaks5.0 miles17
Hampton Acres5.0 miles17
Devonshire5.5 miles17
North Forks5.5 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231651. 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.