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Tylersville, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Clinton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29360. The Survey maps it on the Ora quadrangle.

Tylersville within Laurens County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

94 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Tylersville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 526 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined46
Debris and open burning21
Arson/incendiarism11
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural4
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1

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 2005Debris and open burning1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 August 2007Natural7.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 August 2019Natural27 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 August 2002Smoking1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
1 August 2015Debris and open burning8.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Laurens County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 46 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 46 workings within 5 miles of Tylersville: 26 past producers, 9 unknowns, 8 producers, 2 prospects. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Vermiculite, Kyanite. 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
Gideon Sillimanite ProspectKyaniteProspect
Abercrombie MineVermiculitePast Producer
Ball MineVermiculiteProducerMetamorphosed Igneous Intrusion
Boyd-Whitmore MineVermiculiteUnknownMetamorphosed Igneous Intrusion
Brown PitVermiculitePast Producer
Burns-Nelson MineVermiculitePast ProducerMetamorphosed Igneous Intrusion
Cooper #1 & #2VermiculiteUnknownMetamorphosed Igneous Intrusion
Cooper MineVermiculitePast ProducerMetamorphosed Igneous Intrusion
Davis-Dewitt MineVermiculiteUnknownMetamorphosed Igneous Intrusion
Deshields #1 & #2 MineVermiculiteUnknownMetamorphosed Igneous Intrusion

Every working recorded in Laurens County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tylersville in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2011: 1 hail, 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 WindTylersville-A tree was blown down on Duncan Creek Church Rd about 8 miles northeast of town, and another tree was blown down at Bellview Church Rd and Bethany Church Rd 5 miles east northeast of town.
March 2010HailTylersville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Laurens 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
Goodwins Crossroads3.0 miles13
Ora4.0 miles13
Lanford4.6 miles12
Bryson (historical)4.8 miles8
Long Branch4.9 miles13
Wattsville5.6 miles13
Philson Crossroads6.3 miles13
Martin Crossroads6.7 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1227991. 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.