Cromer Crossroads, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Whitmire census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29355. It stands on Headleys Creek. The Survey maps it on the Newberry NW quadrangle.

Cromer Crossroads within Newberry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1941 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Newberry NW quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Newberry quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

102 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Cromer Crossroads between 1992 and 2019, burning about 251 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 25 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	48
Arson/incendiarism	25
Natural	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Debris and open burning	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Recreation and ceremony	1
Other causes	1
Smoking	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
3 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	not named
24 September 2007	Debris and open burning	18 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	COLONIAL
23 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2007	Natural	4.6 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	THURSDAY
2 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	SWAFFORD
1 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	INDIAN CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newberry 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
Eison Crossroads	3.3 miles	13
Brickhouse Crossroads	3.3 miles	13
Beth Eden	5.1 miles	13
Jalapa	5.6 miles	13
Whitmire	6.0 miles	12
Gary	6.3 miles	13
Kinards	7.1 miles	12
Mount Bethel (historical)	7.6 miles	13

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 Q122572535

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 1247427. 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.