Storeville, South Carolina

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Iva census division. It stands on Hencoop Creek. The Survey maps it on the Antreville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Storeville within Anderson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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.

1893 USGS Elberton quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Antreville quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Abbeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

203 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 203 fires within 5 miles of Storeville (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 730 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 53 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	55
Arson/incendiarism	53
Debris and open burning	49
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Smoking	13
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Natural	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Recreation and ceremony	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
9 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2012	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.1 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Anderson County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Storeville (historical): 2 prospects, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Feldspar. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Brown Prospects	Mica, Feldspar	Prospect
Todd Prospect	Feldspar, Mica	Prospect
Clenkscales Prospect	Mica	Unknown	Pegmatite
Rocky River Mine	Mica	Unknown	1921, 1923

Every working recorded in Anderson 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
Saylors Crossroads	4.8 miles	13
Varennes (historical)	5.6 miles	13
Iva	5.7 miles	14
Flat Rock	5.9 miles	14
Starr	6.2 miles	14
Meadow Fields	6.4 miles	14
Deans	6.4 miles	14
Clover Hill	6.7 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1233509. 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.