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Sharpes Hill, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Swansea census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29053. The Survey maps it on the Pelion East quadrangle.

Sharpes Hill within Lexington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

756 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 756 fires within 5 miles of Sharpes Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,849 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 36 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/undetermined296
Debris and open burning234
Misuse of fire by a minor119
Arson/incendiarism36
Equipment and vehicle use32
Natural21
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
8 September 2018Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2006Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lexington County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Sharpes Hill: 11 producers, 6 unknowns, 2 past producers. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Sand, Silica. 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
Congaree CreekIron, Zirconium, Thorium, TitaniumUnknownPlacer , Modern , Fluvial
Columbia Pit EastSilicaProducer
Columbia WorksSilicaProducer
EdmundSandUnknownSedimentary
EdmundSandUnknownSedimentary
Hites Kaolin PitClayProducer
Lexington County MineClayUnknownSedimentary
Lexington County MinesClayProducer
Sox MineClayProducerSedimentary
Unidentified MineClayPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Lexington 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
Gaston2.8 miles12
Macedon3.2 miles13
Testo3.5 miles13
Edmund4.0 miles13
Shuler (historical)4.5 miles13
Blue Ridge Terrace5.1 miles13
Glenn Village5.5 miles13
Congaree Gardens5.8 miles13

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 Q122571740The 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 1231796. 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.