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Shoals Junction, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Ware Shoals-Hodges census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29638. The Survey maps it on the Shoals Junction quadrangle.

Shoals Junction within Greenwood County

On record in Shoals Junction

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

5 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

223 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 223 fires within 5 miles of Shoals Junction between 1992 and 2020, burning about 855 acres in total. 5 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined109
Debris and open burning54
Arson/incendiarism24
Equipment and vehicle use14
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Natural5
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1

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
4 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1999Arson/incendiarism18 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greenwood County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Shoals Junction: 3 producers, 2 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Copper, Iron, Silver. 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
Saluda MineCopper, Iron, SilverProspect
Saluda MineCopperPast ProducerStratiform
UnknownCopperPast ProducerStratabound Discordant
Ware Shoals DivisionSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownPlacer , Modern , Fluvial
Ware Shoals DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ware Shoals PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Wilson Bros. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Greenwood 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
Algary (historical)1.4 miles13
Black1.5 miles13
Tinsley3.1 miles13
Simmons3.8 miles13
Ware Shoals4.2 miles13
Jones (historical)4.4 miles13
Hodges5.7 miles14
Cokesbury6.8 miles14

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 Q122541886The 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 1250881. 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.