Sunset Heights, South Carolina

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the North Augusta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29841. It stands on Pretty Run Creek. The Survey maps it on the Augusta East quadrangle.

Sunset Heights within Aiken County

On record in Sunset Heights

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 4 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Rosemary Halllisted 1975 · 0.5 miles away
Lookaway Halllisted 1992 · 0.5 miles away
B. C. Wall Houselisted 1992 · 0.6 miles away
Georgia Avenue-Butler Avenue Historic Districtlisted 1984 · 0.9 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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.

1921 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1943 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Augusta East quadrangle1:125000
1954 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Augusta East quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1982 USGS Barnwell quadrangle1:100000
1995 USGS Augusta East quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

206 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 206 fires within 5 miles of Sunset Heights between 1992 and 2020, burning about 664 acres in total. None started naturally. 39 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	40
Arson/incendiarism	39
Misuse of fire by a minor	29
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Other causes	2
Fireworks	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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 1997	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-RICHMOND-015
6 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2012	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2013-RICHMOND-002
23 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	2.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-RICHMOND-012

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Aiken County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Sunset Heights: 7 past producers, 5 occurrences, 5 producers, 4 unknowns. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Brick Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Augusta Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Clay Preparation Plant	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
Foster's Lane Pit	Brick Clay	Occurrence
Horse Creek	Titanium, Zirconium, REE, Thorium	Unknown	Placer-Modern-Fluvial
Horse Creek	REE	Past Producer
Unidentified Mine(Horse Creek Mine)	Zirconium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, REE, Titanium	Past Producer	Sedimentary Kaolin
Merry Companies Mine	Clay	Producer
Merry Pit 4	Clay	Producer
North Augusta Mine	Clay	Past Producer
Richmond County Mine	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Aiken 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
Savannah Terrace	0.4 miles	21
Bahama Heights	0.5 miles	20
Fairview Gardens	0.8 miles	20
North Augusta	0.8 miles	20
Mealing Heights	0.8 miles	21
Hammond Hills	0.8 miles	20
Carolina Terrace	1.0 miles	20
Lynnhurst	1.0 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1236558. 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.