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Wellington West, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Spartanburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29369. It stands on Ranson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wellford quadrangle.

Wellington West within Spartanburg County

On record in Wellington West

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

123 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 123 fires within 5 miles of Wellington West between 1992 and 2019, burning about 372 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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/undetermined74
Debris and open burning22
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Arson/incendiarism7
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Fireworks1
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
7 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 1999Railroad operations and maintenance8.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 2009Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 August 2007Debris and open burning1.4 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spartanburg County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Wellington West: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Thorium, Titanium, Zirconium. 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
Tyger RiverThorium, Titanium, ZirconiumUnknownPlacer-Modern-Fluvial

Every working recorded in Spartanburg 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
River Edge0.8 miles13
Valley Dale Park1.0 miles13
Pinewood South1.1 miles18
Ashley1.2 miles13
Pebblebrook1.3 miles18
Lake Ridge1.5 miles13
Oak Forest1.5 miles18
Fox Hunt1.7 miles13

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 Q122542123The 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 1248671. 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.