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Reidville Acres, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Reidville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29388. It stands on Powder Branch. The Survey maps it on the Reidville quadrangle.

Reidville Acres within Spartanburg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

80 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Reidville Acres between 1992 and 2019, burning about 324 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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/undetermined39
Debris and open burning23
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use4
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 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Debris and open burning5.6 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 1997Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 August 2009Debris and open burning3.9 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spartanburg County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Reidville Acres: 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Thorium, Titanium, Zirconium, 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
Arbuckle QuarryGraniteProducer
Tyger RiverThorium, Titanium, ZirconiumUnknownPlacer-Modern-Fluvial

Every working recorded in Spartanburg 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
Water Oaks1.0 miles13
Reidville1.4 miles13
Greenridge1.7 miles13
Poplar Springs1.9 miles13
Pine Grove2.5 miles13
Pinebrook2.6 miles13
Fairmont2.8 miles13
Brookhaven2.9 miles13

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122567369The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1248527. 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.