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Cross Roads, South Carolina

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Oakway census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29678. The Survey maps it on the Fair Play quadrangle.

Cross Roads within Oconee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

143 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 143 fires within 5 miles of Cross Roads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 382 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 11 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 burning60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined41
Arson/incendiarism11
Smoking9
Natural7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1
Other causes1

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 2003Smoking1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2009Smokingunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oconee County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Cross Roads: 2 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Vermiculite, Mica. 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
American Vermiculite #1 PitVermiculitePast ProducerMetamorphosed Igneous Intrusion
Parker DepositMicaOccurrence
Cochran MineGoldPast Producer
Sitton ProspectGoldUnknownVein
Sitton ProspectGoldProspect

Every working recorded in Oconee 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
Snug Harbor2.1 miles17
Earles Grove2.3 miles17
Oakway2.6 miles18
Cleveland-A-Farm2.9 miles16
Seven Oaks3.0 miles17
Return3.1 miles16
Timberlake3.1 miles17
Hicks Store3.2 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1247435. 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.