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Tega Cay, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Fort Mill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29708. It stands on Allison Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lake Wylie quadrangle. 12,832 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 636 feet above sea level.

Tega Cay within York County

Population over time

2 figures

Tega Cay grew from 7,620 to 12,832 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20107,620
202012,832+5,212 (+68%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

Fires near this place

101 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Tega Cay between 1992 and 2019, burning about 213 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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/undetermined53
Debris and open burning20
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Arson/incendiarism8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
5 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Carolina Forest Servicenot named
8 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in York County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Tega Cay: 6 unknowns, 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Mica, Iron. 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
Clawson MineIronPast Producer
Clawson Mine Or Sutton MineGoldUnknown1856
Indian Graveyard MineMicaPast Producer
Catawba River PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
Catawba River PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fewell Island Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Unnamed Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownResidual, Igneous
Unnamed Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownResidual, Igneous
Unnamed Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownResidual, Igneous
Unnamed Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownResidual, Igneous

Every working recorded in York 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
Island View Landing0.8 miles16
Lakewood0.9 miles16
Lakewood Acres1.2 miles16
Forest Acres1.2 miles16
India Hook1.2 miles16
Hickory Hill1.8 miles16
Monterey Hills1.9 miles16
Belmont (historical)2.1 miles16

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 Tega CayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2153250The 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 1231854. 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.