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Pleasant Plain, South Carolina

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Kershaw census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29067. The Survey maps it on the Kershaw quadrangle.

Pleasant Plain within Lancaster County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

122 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Plain between 1992 and 2020, burning about 440 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined51
Debris and open burning35
Arson/incendiarism12
Equipment and vehicle use11
Smoking4
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks1
Other causes1
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
6 September 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use45 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lancaster County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Pleasant Plain: 11 past producers, 5 unknowns, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Mica, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Haile MineMica, Silver, Gold, Sulfur, Tin, MolybdenumUnknown1827, 1828, 1992
Haile MineSilver, GoldPlant1827, 1829
Old Sumter Granite QuarryGranite, Stone, DimensionPast ProducerIgneous
Parker Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Taxehaw Granite QuarryGranite, Stone, DimensionPast ProducerIgneous
Unidentified Clay PitClayUnknownSedimentary
Unidentified Clay PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Unidentified Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Blackmon MineGold, MicaUnknown1840, 1906
Hilltop MineMicaProducer1981

Every working recorded in Lancaster 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
Midway2.5 miles13
White Bluff Corssroads3.1 miles13
Midway Crossroads3.5 miles14
Fork Hill Crossroads4.3 miles13
Kershaw4.5 miles14
Oakhurst4.9 miles13
Rich Hill Crossroads5.3 miles13
Taxahaw5.8 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1227965. 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.