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Pittsburg, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Kirksey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29848. It stands on Mount Carmel Branch. The Survey maps it on the Limestone quadrangle.

Pittsburg within Greenwood County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

85 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Pittsburg between 1992 and 2020, burning about 729 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 9 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 burning24
Natural9
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 2011Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsPITT
12 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2002Debris and open burning8.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsPITTSBURGH
28 August 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greenwood County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Pittsburg: 5 past producers, 4 occurrences, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Kyanite, Corundum, Pyrophyllite, Kyanite, Aluminum, Granite. 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
Boles OccurrenceCorundum, Pyrophyllite, Kyanite, AluminumUnknownDiaspore, Pyrophyllite, Corundum, Kyanite, Andalusite
Crystal Blue Quarry No. 2GranitePast Producer
Faulkner Mountain Pyrophillite ProspectPyrophyllite, AndalusiteUnknownMetamorphic
Boles Mtn Andalusite DepositKyaniteOccurrence
Piedmont Kyn BeltKyaniteOccurrenceSTRATABOUND
Faulkner Mountain ProspectGoldOccurrence
Landrum MineGoldPast Producer
Landrum and Quattlebaum Mine Southern MineGoldPast ProducerVein
Long Cane Road ProspectGoldPast Producer
Mountain Creek ProspectGoldOccurrence

Every working recorded in Greenwood 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
Sheppard Crossroads2.9 miles15
Kirksey3.7 miles15
Friendship4.5 miles12
Rosa (historical)5.0 miles15
Sand Ridge5.1 miles15
Cambridge6.7 miles12
Callison6.8 miles15
Gaines Crossroads6.9 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1230178. 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.