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Pleasant Grove, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Shiloh census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29080. The Survey maps it on the Turbeville quadrangle.

Pleasant Grove within Sumter County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 16 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

569 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 569 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Grove between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,030 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 182 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
Debris and open burning187
Arson/incendiarism182
Missing data/not specified/undetermined167
Smoking11
Equipment and vehicle use11
Natural6
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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 2007Debris and open burning1.6 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Debris and open burning10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.6 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sumter 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 Pleasant Grove: 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Columbia QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Lee PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rhinehart No. 1 MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Smith Paving Co MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Sumter 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
Trinity Cross Roads2.2 miles16
Shiloh3.6 miles16
Hobbs Crossroads5.1 miles10
Norwood Crossroad5.8 miles8
Scottsville6.8 miles17
Mayesville8.6 miles17
Shaws Crossroads12.1 miles16
Brunsons Store12.7 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1244646. 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.