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Rock Creek, South Carolina

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Monticello-Salem Crossroads census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29015. It stands on Rocky Branch. The Survey maps it on the Salem Crossroads quadrangle.

Rock Creek within Fairfield County

On record in Rock Creek

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

126 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 126 fires within 5 miles of Rock Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 444 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined58
Debris and open burning22
Equipment and vehicle use15
Natural9
Recreation and ceremony7
Arson/incendiarism7
Smoking4
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1

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
29 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use4.4 acresFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsFS400
26 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2010Recreation and ceremony1.4 acresFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsROCKEY BRANCH
15 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fairfield County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Rock Creek: 2 producers, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Granite, Stone, Dimension, Granite, Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Blair QuarryGraniteUnknownIgneous
Blair QuarryGranite, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer1908
Blair QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Dickert QuarryGranite, Stone, DimensionPast Producer1908

Every working recorded in Fairfield 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
Blair2.3 miles15
Strother2.5 miles15
Salem Crossroads3.1 miles14
Old Buckhead3.8 miles14
Dawkins4.0 miles15
Lylesford (historical)4.4 miles15
Monticello5.1 miles15
Feasterville6.2 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1237072. 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.