Alexander Crossroads, South Carolina

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Lake Swamp census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29161. It stands on Myrtle Branch. The Survey maps it on the Timmonsville quadrangle.

Alexander Crossroads within Darlington 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.

1940 USGS Florence West quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1945 USGS Florence West quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Florence quadrangle1:100000
1986 USGS Timmonsville quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

371 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 371 fires within 5 miles of Alexander Crossroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,728 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 56 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	153
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	106
Arson/incendiarism	56
Misuse of fire by a minor	22
Equipment and vehicle use	22
Natural	4
Smoking	3
Other causes	2
Fireworks	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 2011	Debris and open burning	15 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2009	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2003	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Darlington 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
Wallace Crossroads	0.9 miles	10
Jernigan Crossroads	1.1 miles	10
Muldrow Mill	2.4 miles	10
Wilson Crossroads	2.5 miles	10
Syracuse	3.1 miles	10
Jackson Crossroads	3.5 miles	10
Philadelphia (historical)	4.1 miles	10
Dubose Crossroads	5.0 miles	7

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 Q122589388

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 1244859. 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.