Rocky Bottom, South Carolina

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.

• 1905 USGS Pisgah quadrangle1:125000
• 1906 USGS Pisgah quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1935 USGS Eastatoe Gap quadrangle1:24000
• 1946 USGS Eastatoe Gap quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1947 USGS Eastatoe Gap quadrangle1:24000
• 1955 USGS Knoxville quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Knoxville quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1960 USGS Knoxville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1964 USGS Knoxville quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Hendersonville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1997 USGS Eastatoe Gap quadrangle1:24000

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Rocky Bottom between 1992 and 2018, burning about 11,858 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 5 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Nimmons
• Sunset
• Prices Store (historical)
• Knob (historical)

Every fire recorded in Pickens County

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

Every working recorded in Pickens County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rocky Bottom in 2 storm reports between 1995 and 2006: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Pickens County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1225958. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.