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Sugar Creek Villas, South Carolina

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Taylors census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29650. It stands on Enoree Fork Branch. The Survey maps it on the Taylors quadrangle.

Sugar Creek Villas within Greenville County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

28 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Sugar Creek Villas between 1992 and 2011, burning about 146 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined14
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2005Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 June 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 June 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 April 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 April 2004Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 April 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greenville County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Sugar Creek Villas: 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Pelham QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerMetamorphic
Barnett & Simmons DepositsMicaOccurrence
H L Shelton DepositMicaOccurrence

Every working recorded in Greenville 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
Silver Leaf0.5 miles11
Sugar Creek0.5 miles11
Riverdowns0.8 miles11
Cane Brake0.8 miles11
Del Norte Estates0.9 miles11
Sugar Mill1.0 miles11
East Gate Village1.1 miles11
Quail Ridge1.2 miles12

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.

Wikidata item Q122554824The 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 1245343. 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.