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Stone Station, South Carolina

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Pauline census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29306. The Survey maps it on the Moore quadrangle.

Stone Station within Spartanburg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

79 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Stone Station between 1992 and 2019, burning about 262 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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/undetermined46
Debris and open burning13
Arson/incendiarism5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
29 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2002Debris and open burning2.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 1999Railroad operations and maintenance8.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 2009Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spartanburg County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Stone Station: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Thorium, Titanium, Zirconium, Sand. 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
Fairforest Creek Sand MineSandUnknownSedimentary
Tyger RiverThorium, Titanium, ZirconiumUnknownPlacer-Modern-Fluvial

Every working recorded in Spartanburg County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stone Station in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2025Thunderstorm WindStone Station-Emergency manager reported several trees and power lines blown down near the intersection of Old Canaan Rd and Martin Family Rd, with a small brush fire started by a downed power line.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindStone Station-Trees were blown down on Tims Creek Rd, Asbury Neely Way, State Rd, West Rd, Otts Shoals Rd, and Harrison Grove Rd.

Every storm recorded in Spartanburg 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
Smiths Tavern1.4 miles14
Golightly2.3 miles14
Gatewood2.3 miles14
Pauline3.0 miles14
Raynell3.0 miles18
Roebuck3.2 miles18
Canaan3.3 miles18
Walnut Grove3.6 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.

Wikipedia article on Stone StationAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22073127The 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 1251051. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.