Springwood Lakes, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Chester census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29706. It stands on Tanyard Branch. The Survey maps it on the Chester quadrangle.

Springwood Lakes within Chester County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1941 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Chester quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

142 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of Springwood Lakes between 1992 and 2020, burning about 412 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined	73
Debris and open burning	37
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Natural	6
Arson/incendiarism	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Smoking	2
Other causes	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 1997	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1999	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2002	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 1998	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chester 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Gayle Mill	1.1 miles	13
Brooklyn	1.7 miles	13
Hilltop Acres	1.8 miles	13
Chester	1.9 miles	13
Pineview Lakes	2.3 miles	13
Mountain Lakes	2.3 miles	12
Rolling Hills Estates	2.4 miles	13
Cedar Grove	2.5 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1230757. 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.