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Quail Hollow, South Carolina

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the West Columbia-Cayce census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29169. It stands on Senn Branch. The Survey maps it on the Columbia North quadrangle.

Quail Hollow within Lexington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

271 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 271 fires within 5 miles of Quail Hollow between 1992 and 2019, burning about 385 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 25 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/undetermined118
Misuse of fire by a minor64
Debris and open burning33
Arson/incendiarism25
Equipment and vehicle use10
Recreation and ceremony9
Smoking6
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Natural1
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
9 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2019Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2019Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1998Smokingunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lexington County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Quail Hollow: 6 past producers, 5 producers, 4 unknowns. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Thorium, Clay, Kaolin, Iron, Titanium, Zirconium. 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
Green HoleStone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension, GranitePast ProducerIgneous
Guignard MillClay, KaolinPast Producer
Harleys Mill PondIron, Titanium, ZirconiumUnknownPlacer , Modern , Fluvial
Westinghouse Elec. Corp--ColumbiaThoriumUnknown
Brick Plant No. 2ClayPast Producer
Brick Plant No. 4ClayPast Producer
Broad River MineClayProducer
Broad River ShaleClayPast ProducerMetamorphic
Corley Mill Rd PitClayProducerMetamorphic
Duncan Lakes MineClayProducer

Every working recorded in Lexington 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
Oak Creek1.0 miles20
Saluda Hills1.0 miles21
Woodland Hills1.1 miles20
Grenadier1.5 miles20
Gardendale1.6 miles20
Westwood Hills1.6 miles21
Westover Acres1.7 miles21
Saint Andrews1.8 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1244331. 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.