Wellridge, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Chester census division. The Survey maps it on the Stover quadrangle.

Wellridge within Chester 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.

1941 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Stover quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

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 Wellridge between 1992 and 2019, burning about 455 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 14 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	39
Debris and open burning	16
Arson/incendiarism	14
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Smoking	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Other causes	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

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
30 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	65 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2005	Smoking	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	56 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chester 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Tip Top (historical)	2.7 miles	12
Ruckers Crossroads	3.8 miles	13
Rossville	4.5 miles	12
Binghamtown (historical)	5.4 miles	12
Cornwell	5.6 miles	13
McKeown	5.7 miles	13
Blackstock	6.0 miles	13
Caldwell Crossroad	6.4 miles	12

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 Q122569015

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 1230767. 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.