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Spring Lake, South Carolina

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Elgin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29078. It stands on Suttons Branch. The Survey maps it on the Rabon Crossroads quadrangle.

Spring Lake within Kershaw County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 19 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

271 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 271 fires within 5 miles of Spring Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,367 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 22 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/undetermined101
Debris and open burning96
Arson/incendiarism22
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Equipment and vehicle use15
Natural7
Smoking7
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Debris and open burning1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kershaw County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Spring Lake: 3 unknowns, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Clay. 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
Kershaw County MineClayUnknownSedimentary
Kershaw No. 2 Clay MineClayPast ProducerMetamorphic
Julian Moore MineGoldPast Producer1930
Lamar MineGoldUnknownVein
Sarh Emmanual ProspectGoldUnknown

Every working recorded in Kershaw 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
Branham Heights0.9 miles19
Kellytown1.8 miles18
Rabon Crossroads1.9 miles19
Bee Tree (historical)3.2 miles19
Thunderwoods3.3 miles18
Bellfield (historical)3.7 miles15
Gettysburg4.0 miles18
Lugoff4.1 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1235213. 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.