Ariel Cross Road, South Carolina

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Marion census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29571. The Survey maps it on the Centenary quadrangle. It stands 89 feet above sea level.

Ariel Cross Road within Marion County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

1947 USGS Centenary quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Florence quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

147 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 147 fires within 5 miles of Ariel Cross Road between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,018 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 41 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	50
Arson/incendiarism	41
Debris and open burning	38
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Fireworks	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Natural	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
3 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1999	Debris and open burning	24 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Ariel Cross Road: 1 unknown, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Asphalt Products Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown	Sedimentary
	Asphalt Products Pit No. 7	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Marion 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
Rains	1.6 miles	8
Cartwheel Landing	2.8 miles	8
Davis Landing	3.4 miles	8
Pendeboro	3.9 miles	11
Centenary	4.2 miles	8
Koonce	4.2 miles	11
Gapway	6.4 miles	8
Tabernacle	7.2 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.

Wikipedia article on Ariel Cross Road	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16161056	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 1244923. 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.