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State Line, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Macedonia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29341. The Survey maps it on the Chesnee quadrangle.

State Line within Cherokee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

241 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 241 fires within 5 miles of State Line between 1992 and 2020, burning about 565 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning79
Missing data/not specified/undetermined73
Arson/incendiarism36
Equipment and vehicle use18
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Smoking12
Other causes3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2010Smokingunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2009Equipment and vehicle use2.5 acresNorth Carolina Forest ServiceNOT GOING TO RAIN FIRE
23 September 2005Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreNorth Carolina Forest ServiceCHOO CHOO FIRE
21 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNorth Carolina Forest ServicePAINTER RD
2 September 2015Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Carolina Forest Servicenot named
10 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of State Line: 7 unknowns, 7 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Tin, Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Kyanite. 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
Cliffside-Elkin Kyn Belt DepositKyaniteOccurrenceMetamorphic
Rutherford County Dredge No. 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rutherford County Dredge and PSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cowpens AreaIronUnknownResidual
Cowpens Battlefield Bog-Iron MineIronUnknownBog Iron Limonite
Unnamed Hematite Mine Gl-110IronUnknown1850
Unnamed Hematite Mine Gl-111IronUnknown1850
Unnamed Hematite Mine Gl-112IronUnknown1850
Ashworth Creek Cassiterite OccurrenceTinUnknownPlacer
Dills Creek Cassiterite Occurrence Se-TribTinOccurrencePlacer

Every working recorded in Cherokee 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
Ezell (historical)2.8 miles15
Maud3.6 miles18
Cherokee Hills6.2 miles16
Goforth Cross Road (historical)6.7 miles18
Garden Park6.9 miles16
Grassy Pond7.3 miles18
Macedonia7.6 miles14
Northgate8.3 miles16

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.

Wikipedia article on State LineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22073126The 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 1706304. 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.