BlockBurnt Church Crossroads, South Carolina
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Cottageville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29474. The Survey maps it on the Jacksonboro quadrangle.
On record in Burnt Church Crossroads
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Pon Pon Chapellisted 1972 · 0.1 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1918 USGS Cottageville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1943 USGS Cottageville quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Jacksonboro quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Walterboro quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Walterboro quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
129 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of Burnt Church Crossroads between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,138 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 34 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 | 45 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 39 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 34 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 August 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 August 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 August 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 August 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 July 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 July 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 July 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 15 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jacksonboro | 3.3 miles | 16 | |
| Neyles | 3.7 miles | 17 | |
| Beck Landing | 3.9 miles | 16 | |
| Iron Crossroads | 4.5 miles | 16 | |
| Pine Hill Landing | 5.2 miles | 16 | |
| Padgett Landing | 5.5 miles | 16 | |
| Ashepoo | 5.6 miles | 18 | |
| Pringle Bend | 5.8 miles | 17 |
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 Q122591996 | 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 1247069. 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.