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Rock Branch North, South Carolina

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Elgin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29045. It stands on Rocky Branch. The Survey maps it on the Elgin quadrangle.

Rock Branch North within Kershaw County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 23 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

438 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 438 fires within 5 miles of Rock Branch North between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,790 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 30 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/undetermined190
Debris and open burning142
Arson/incendiarism30
Misuse of fire by a minor28
Equipment and vehicle use23
Smoking18
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
8 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2000Debris and open burning10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kershaw County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Rock Branch North: 4 unknowns, 2 producers, 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Gold, 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
Cherokee PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Belton ProspectGoldOccurrence
Sarh Emmanual ProspectGoldUnknown
Watson MineGoldUnknownStrataform
Kershaw County MineClayUnknownSedimentary
Kershaw County MineClayPast Producer
Kershaw No. 2 Clay MineClayPast ProducerMetamorphic
Mac Clay MineClayUnknownMetamorphic
Mobley Road Shale PitClayProducerMetamorphic

Every working recorded in Kershaw 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
Tupelo Hills1.8 miles23
Pine Valley1.9 miles23
Elgin Acres2.1 miles23
Highland Farms2.1 miles23
Tupelo Creek2.4 miles23
Elgin2.5 miles23
Blaney West2.5 miles23
Cedar Springs2.7 miles23

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 Q122561183The 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 1235195. 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.