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Capwells Crossroads, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Ravenel-Hollywood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29470. The Survey maps it on the Osborn quadrangle.

Capwells Crossroads within Charleston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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.

Fires near this place

230 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 230 fires within 5 miles of Capwells Crossroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,590 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 46 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 burning92
Missing data/not specified/undetermined72
Arson/incendiarism46
Equipment and vehicle use7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Natural4
Railroad operations and maintenance3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 1999Natural2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Debris and open burning34 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 July 1999Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 July 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charleston County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Capwells Crossroads: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Zirconium, Thorium, Titanium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ravenels QuadrangleIron, Zirconium, Thorium, TitaniumUnknownPlacer , Modern , Beach

Every working recorded in Charleston 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Ravenel1.5 miles16
Warren Crossroads2.8 miles16
Jericho2.9 miles16
Baptist Hill3.2 miles18
Hollywood3.4 miles17
Laurel Hill4.1 miles18
Laroche4.3 miles18
Osborn4.4 miles16

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 Q122564522The 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 1227875. 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.