Swearingen, South Carolina

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Trenton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29847. It stands on Quarles Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ropers Crossroads quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Swearingen within Edgefield County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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.

1923 USGS Warrenville quadrangle1:62500
1923 USGS Warrenville quadrangle1:48000
1928 USGS Warrenville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1943 USGS Warrenville quadrangle1:62500
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
1964 USGS Ropers Crossroads quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Aiken quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

137 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 137 fires within 5 miles of Swearingen (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 821 acres in total. 6 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/undetermined	55
Debris and open burning	51
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Natural	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	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
7 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	11 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	75 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
18 August 2007	Natural	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 August 2007	Natural	20 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Edgefield 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 Swearingen (historical): 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Granite, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite, 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Edgefield Granite Quarry	Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	Igneous Intrusion
	Unidentified Granite Quarry	Granite, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	Igneous Intrusion

Every working recorded in Edgefield 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
Wise (historical)	1.0 miles	17
Highview (historical)	3.4 miles	17
Ropers Crossroads	3.8 miles	17
Pine House Crossroads	4.0 miles	18
Parkhill	4.2 miles	12
Rotalata	4.3 miles	18
Crafton (historical)	4.3 miles	17
Trenton	5.0 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1228942. 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.