The Ruins, South Carolina

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 3 records

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

• Holy Cross Episcopal ChurchNational Historic Landmark · listed 1973 · 0.5 miles away
• Borough House PlantationNational Historic Landmark · listed 1972 · 0.7 miles away
• Stateburg Historic Districtlisted 1971 · 1.0 miles away

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.

• 1943 USGS Eastover quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Wedgefield quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 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
• 1986 USGS Sumter quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Sumter quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 283 fires within 5 miles of The Ruins between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,228 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 32 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Stateburg
• Dixie Crossing
• General Sumter Estates
• Marden Ranchettes
• Claremont
• Foxville

Every fire recorded in Sumter County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of The Ruins: 2 unknowns, 2 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Iron, Iron, Zirconium, Thorium, Titanium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Sumter County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1227086. 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.