Saluda Hills, 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.

• 1904 USGS Columbia quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1941 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1947 USGS Columbia North quadrangle1:24000
• 1948 USGS Columbia North quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1960 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1963 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1972 USGS Columbia North quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1986 USGS Newberry quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1997 USGS Columbia North quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 271 fires within 5 miles of Saluda Hills between 1992 and 2019, burning about 417 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 24 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:

• Quail Hollow
• Gardendale
• Oak Creek
• Saluda Gardens
• Saluda Terrace
• Westover Acres

Every fire recorded in Lexington County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Saluda Hills: 9 producers, 7 past producers, 5 unknowns. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Thorium. 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 Lexington County

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

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1244368. 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.