Cross, South Carolina

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 2 records

• Lawson's Pond Plantationlisted 1977
• Loch Dhulisted 1977

Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records

• Cabin, Crossfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Cabin, Crossfederal building survey, 1 photograph

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.

• 1920 USGS Chicora quadrangle1:48000
• 1921 USGS Chicora quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1943 USGS Chicora quadrangle1:62500
• 1954 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
• 1979 USGS Cross quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1985 USGS Saint George quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Saint George quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 623 fires within 5 miles of Cross between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,288 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 154 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Moss Grove
• Chapel Hill (historical)
• Corsada (historical)
• Cross Cross Roads
• Nelson Hill
• Prioleau

Every fire recorded in Berkeley County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cross: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Every working recorded in Berkeley County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cross in 36 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 21 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 2 tornado, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Berkeley County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1221844. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.