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Pleasant Hill, South Carolina

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Highland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29651. The Survey maps it on the Tigerville quadrangle.

Pleasant Hill within Greenville 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

96 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Hill between 1992 and 2018, burning about 465 acres in total. None 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/undetermined34
Debris and open burning30
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony3
Other causes2
Fireworks1
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
4 August 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 1997Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 August 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 June 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 May 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 May 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
1 May 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
1 May 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 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

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Pleasant Hill: 6 past producers, 5 unknowns, 3 occurrences, 3 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Iron, Zirconium, Mica. 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
Clark-Tyger Sand MineSandUnknownSedimentary
L E Stringer ProspectMicaProspect
Rester MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
TigerVermiculiteUnknownMetamorphosed Igneous Intrusion
Tigerville ProspectZirconiumOccurrence
I L Tigert ProspectIronOccurrence
Mills Herren ProspectIronProspect
Stanley Adkins ProspectIronOccurrence
Briggs ProspectGoldUnknownVein
Briggs ProspectGoldProspect

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
Mitchell (historical)0.7 miles17
Skyland1.6 miles17
Lendaw1.7 miles17
Taho (historical)1.7 miles17
Blue Ridge1.8 miles17
Jordan2.1 miles17
Tyger (historical)2.4 miles15
Highland2.6 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1245285. 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.