Whitehall, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Troy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29819. It stands on Little Cowhead Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bradley quadrangle.

Whitehall within Greenwood County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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.

1892 USGS Abbeville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1950 USGS Bradley quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Bradley quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Abbeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

144 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 144 fires within 5 miles of Whitehall between 1992 and 2020, burning about 798 acres in total. 5 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/undetermined	56
Debris and open burning	39
Railroad operations and maintenance	14
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Arson/incendiarism	7
Smoking	7
Natural	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 September 2010	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 2010	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2006	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	105 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	CRESWELL
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	60 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greenwood County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Whitehall: 2 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Martins Kiln	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Metamorphic
Bradley Mine	Gold	Unknown	1848
Bradley Mine	Gold	Past Producer	Placer
Bradley Prospect	Gold	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Greenwood 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
Aix (historical)	2.1 miles	15
Verdery	2.8 miles	15
Bradley	2.9 miles	15
Breezewood	3.5 miles	15
Promised Land	3.5 miles	15
Laco (historical)	3.9 miles	15
Lorenzo (historical)	4.8 miles	15
Salak	5.3 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1251425. 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.