BlockWade Heights, South Carolina
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Greenwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29646. The Survey maps it on the Greenwood quadrangle.
On record in Wade Heights
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 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Sunnysidelisted 1978 · 0.7 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1892 USGS Abbeville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1949 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:24000
- 1979 USGS Abbeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
280 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 280 fires within 5 miles of Wade Heights between 1992 and 2020, burning about 473 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined | 170 |
| Debris and open burning | 58 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 26 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 4.3 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 September 1999 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 14 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 14 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Wade Heights: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benjamin Granite Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Unknown | Igneous |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Panola Village | 0.9 miles | 15 | |
| Parkwood | 0.9 miles | 15 | |
| Mathews Village | 1.1 miles | 15 | |
| South Greenwood | 1.1 miles | 15 | |
| Woodfields | 1.2 miles | 15 | |
| New Market | 1.3 miles | 15 | |
| Sunset Acres | 1.5 miles | 15 | |
| Greenwood | 1.5 miles | 15 |
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 Q122560696 | The 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 1231885. 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.