Youngs, South Carolina

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Gray Court census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29645. It stands on South Durbin Creek. The Survey maps it on the Woodruff quadrangle.

Youngs within Laurens County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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.

1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Fountain Inn quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Woodruff quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

116 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Youngs between 1992 and 2019, burning about 352 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 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	48
Debris and open burning	38
Arson/incendiarism	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Natural	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
4 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.3 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.6 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2010	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Laurens County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Youngs: 3 producers, 2 unknowns. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Vermiculite, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Gray Court #246 Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Charles Waldrep	Vermiculite	Producer	Metamorphosed Igneous Intrusion
Entrekin Quarry	Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown	1908
F. Waldrep Mine	Vermiculite	Unknown	Metamorphosed Igneous Intrusion
Gray Court Quarry	Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer	Metamorphosed Igneous Intrusion

Every working recorded in Laurens 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
Martin Crossroads	3.9 miles	8
Owings	3.9 miles	8
Powers Shop (historical)	4.2 miles	8
Gray Court	4.6 miles	8
Cooks Crossroads	5.8 miles	8
Lanford	6.2 miles	12
Barksdale	7.0 miles	8
Green Pond	7.3 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231944. 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.