Ridgewood Heights, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Spartanburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29301. The Survey maps it on the Spartanburg quadrangle.

Ridgewood Heights within Spartanburg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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.

1941 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1947 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1949 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

166 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 166 fires within 5 miles of Ridgewood Heights between 1992 and 2020, burning about 461 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined	84
Debris and open burning	35
Misuse of fire by a minor	17
Arson/incendiarism	10
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Recreation and ceremony	2
Fireworks	2
Smoking	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Natural	2
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 September 1997	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 2011	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 2011	Fireworks	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spartanburg County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Ridgewood Heights: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	North Spartanburg	Titanium, Iron	Unknown	Placer , 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Una	0.4 miles	18
Glenwood (historical)	0.9 miles	18
Hilltop	0.9 miles	18
Johnson City	0.9 miles	18
Belvedere	0.9 miles	18
Saxon	1.0 miles	18
Hayne Station	1.1 miles	18
Lone Oak	1.3 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1248530. 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.