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Cross Cross Roads, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Cross census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29436. It lies near Nelson Hill. The Survey maps it on the Cross quadrangle.

Cross Cross Roads within Berkeley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

689 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 689 fires within 5 miles of Cross Cross Roads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,635 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 185 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/undetermined299
Arson/incendiarism185
Debris and open burning167
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Smoking8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural5
Other causes3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1

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
9 September 2018Natural1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2005Arson/incendiarism12 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2011Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2018Debris and open burning15 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkeley 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
Nelson Hill0.5 miles18
Cross1.2 miles18
Chapel Hill (historical)1.8 miles18
Moss Grove2.0 miles18
Moss Pond (historical)2.5 miles18
Spring Plain (historical)2.9 miles18
Prioleau3.1 miles18
Corsada (historical)3.8 miles18

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 Q122542272The 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 1234291. 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.