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Towne Creek Acres, South Carolina

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Anderson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29621. It stands on Town Creek. The Survey maps it on the Anderson North quadrangle.

Towne Creek Acres within Anderson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

71 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Towne Creek Acres between 1992 and 2020, burning about 235 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined26
Debris and open burning14
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking4
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
4 September 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 1999Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.7 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 July 1999Natural18 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 July 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 July 2008Debris and open burning1.0 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

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Towne Creek Acres: 2 prospects, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Titanium, Gemstone. 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
Mcconnell ProspectMica, GemstoneProspect
SmithIron, TitaniumUnknownMagnetite Vein
Unnamed Crushed Stone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerGranite Pluton
J A Jones ProspectMicaProspect

Every working 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
Twin Lakes0.4 miles17
Kings Court0.5 miles17
Oakwood Estates0.6 miles17
Green Hill Plantation0.6 miles17
Northlake0.6 miles17
Hill and Dale0.7 miles17
Knoxwood0.8 miles17
Cedarwood0.9 miles17

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 Q122548971The 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 1233523. 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.