Wales Garden, 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 12 of 28 shown

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

• Building at 303 Saluda Avenuelisted 1982 · 0.1 miles away
• Heslep Houselisted 1979 · 0.1 miles away
• Wallace-McGee Houselisted 1979 · 0.2 miles away
• A. Fletcher Spigner Houselisted 2009 · 0.2 miles away
• Florence C. Benson Elementary Schoollisted 2009 · 0.4 miles away
• Washington. Booker T., High School Auditoriumlisted 2018 · 0.6 miles away
• University Neighborhood Historic Districtlisted 2004 · 0.7 miles away
• Holman's Barber Shoplisted 2021 · 0.7 miles away
• Union Stationlisted 1973 · 0.8 miles away
• Richland Cotton Milllisted 1983 · 0.8 miles away
• Old Campus District, University of South Carolinalisted 1970 · 0.8 miles away
• McCord Houselisted 1979 · 0.8 miles away

Every listing in Richland County

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.

• 1944 USGS Edmund quadrangle1:62500
• 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
• 1972 USGS Southwest Columbia quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1983 USGS Aiken quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Southwest Columbia quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Wales Garden between 1992 and 2019, burning about 522 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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:

• Hollywood
• New Dublin (historical)
• Shandon
• Columbia
• Forest Hills
• Melrose Heights

Every fire recorded in Richland County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Wales Garden: 6 past producers, 5 producers, 3 unknowns. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zirconium, Thorium, Titanium, Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 Richland 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 1249402. 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.