Adamsville Crossroads, South Carolina

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the McColl census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29570. It stands on Parker Branch. The Survey maps it on the McColl quadrangle.

Adamsville Crossroads within Marlboro County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1942 USGS Rockingham quadrangle1:125000
1953 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Mc Coll quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1976 USGS Mc Coll quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Laurinburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

390 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 390 fires within 5 miles of Adamsville Crossroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,094 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 91 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
Debris and open burning	125
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	114
Arson/incendiarism	91
Equipment and vehicle use	23
Misuse of fire by a minor	16
Smoking	11
Natural	6
Fireworks	4

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
8 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	North Carolina Forest Service	A MESS
30 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	North Carolina Forest Service	HIGH WIND
3 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	North Carolina Forest Service	ROSS STREET
24 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	North Carolina Forest Service	BOSTIC ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marlboro 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
Fletcher	1.8 miles	10
Newtonville	2.7 miles	8
McColl	3.0 miles	10
Lester	3.0 miles	8
Tatum	3.1 miles	10
Burnt Factory (historical)	3.7 miles	8
Brutons Fork	3.8 miles	8
Boykin	4.0 miles	8

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 Q122570983

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 1244847. 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.