Sunset, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the North Pickens census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29685. It stands on Winnie Branch. The Survey maps it on the Sunset quadrangle. It stands 1,024 feet above sea level.

Sunset within Pickens County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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.

1888 USGS Pickens quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Pickens quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Sunset quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

133 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 133 fires within 5 miles of Sunset between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11,596 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 4 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	46
Debris and open burning	40
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Natural	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Recreation and ceremony	6
Smoking	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
8 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2010	Debris and open burning	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
15 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pickens 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 Sunset: 1 prospect, 1 past producer. 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Meece Mine	Feldspar, Mica	Prospect
	Cowpens Mine	Mica	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Pickens County

Storms near this place

9 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sunset in 9 storm reports between 1999 and 2020: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
February 2020	Flash Flood	Sunset	$1,500,000	Emergency manager and automated stream gauges reported significant flash flooding developed across Pickens County after 4 to 7 inches of rain, with locally higher amounts fell in about an 18-hour period. More than half of that rain fell in less than 6 hours from daybreak through late morning of the 6th. The main impact was within the Twelvemile Creek basin. A stream gauge on the creek near Liberty exceeded major flood stage by the evening of the 6th. At this level, significant flooding occurs to the Pickens County Flea Market on Highway 183, and most of the bridges over Twelvemile Creek become inundated. One home on Williams Dr was rendered uninhabitable due to water damage. Flash flooding of the Saluda River also occurred on the Pickens County side of west Greenville, where water was beginning to inundate some houses by late evening. Town Creek overflowed its banks in the city of Pickens and inundated and caused significant damage to an industrial park that was in the process of being converted to new business sites. Two people had to be rescued from this location. Other roads were flooded and closed throughout the county due to a combination of drainage and small stream flooding. Dozens of roads were closed at the height of the event.
February 2020	Flood	Sunset	$500,000	Although heavy rain gradually wound down across Pickens County through the evening, high water conditions persisted, including throughout the Saluda River and Twelvemile Creek basin into the daylight hours of the 7th. Major flooding developed along the Saluda during this time, and the flooding in the west Greenville area was the worst since October 1964. Multiple structures were inundated in extreme southeast Pickens County, including homes on Shady Acres Circle and Old Easley Bridge Rd. Meanwhile. the stream gauge on Twelvemile Creek near Liberty remained in moderate to major flooding until around sunrise on the 7th. However, flooding persisted on the Saluda River, and multiple roads remained closed throughout the day.
April 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Sunset	-	County comms reported a couple of trees blown down on Highway 11.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Sunset	-	County comms reported a tree and a power line blown down on Highway 178 at Cove Creek Road.
May 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Sunset	-	State Park employee reported multiple trees blown down across Horse Pasture Rd in the Jocassee Gorges area.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Sunset	-	Multiple trees were blown down along highway 11.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Sunset	-	A tree and power line were blown down across Holly Springs School Rd about 6 miles north northwest of Pickens.
April 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Sunset	-	Trees blocked highway 11.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Sunset	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pickens 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
Nimmons	2.3 miles	16
Prices Store (historical)	2.4 miles	16
Crow Creek	4.2 miles	16
Rocky Bottom	4.7 miles	20
Nine Times	4.9 miles	16
Midway	5.1 miles	17
Eastatoe	5.7 miles	19
Knob (historical)	6.5 miles	21

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 Sunset	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q30621927	The 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 1226969. 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.