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Toney Creek, South Carolina

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Belton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29627. It stands on Toney Creek. The Survey maps it on the Belton East quadrangle.

Toney Creek within Anderson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

118 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Toney Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 314 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined56
Debris and open burning29
Arson/incendiarism13
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1

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 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1997Debris and open burning4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 1998Debris and open burning6.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Anderson County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Toney Creek: 3 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold. 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
Desota ProspectGoldProspect
Cooper Sand Co. Piedmont MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Piedmont MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
Fred Cox MineMicaPast Producer
Joe Darby DepositMicaOccurrence
Patton MineMicaPast Producer
Welborn ProspectMicaProspect

Every working recorded in Anderson County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Toney Creek in 1 storm report in 2011: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2011Thunderstorm WindToney Creek-Two trees were blown down along highway 247 near the Greenville County line.

Every storm recorded in Anderson 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
Cheddar4.2 miles9
Belton4.4 miles9
Friendship4.4 miles13
High Point4.6 miles13
Williamston5.3 miles9
Dosheno5.5 miles13
Burris5.6 miles13
Pelzer6.3 miles10

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.

Wikidata item Q122563987The 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 1251185. 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.