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Charleston Crossroads, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Abbeville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29620. It stands on Jim Knox Branch. The Survey maps it on the Calhoun Creek quadrangle.

Charleston Crossroads within Abbeville County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

144 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 144 fires within 5 miles of Charleston Crossroads between 1992 and 2019, burning about 554 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined64
Debris and open burning26
Equipment and vehicle use16
Arson/incendiarism13
Natural7
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
7 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2002Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Abbeville County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Charleston Crossroads: 2 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Titanium, Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Calhoun FallsTitanium, IronUnknownOutcrop Exposure
Richard B. Russell Dam Project QuarStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Calais and Douglas MineGoldPast ProducerVein
Calais and Douglas MineGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Abbeville 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
Chesnut Hill (historical)2.6 miles14
Dresden (historical)3.4 miles14
Watts4.0 miles15
Sharon5.2 miles15
Warrenton5.2 miles15
Hester5.5 miles14
Bethiah5.9 miles13
Bethel5.9 miles13

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 Q122567722The 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 1231157. 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.