Cypress Fork Crossroads, South Carolina

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Alcolu census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29001. It stands on Lakewood Creek. The Survey maps it on the Foreston quadrangle.

Cypress Fork Crossroads within Clarendon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

1920 USGS Manning quadrangle1:48000
1921 USGS Manning quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1944 USGS Manning 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 Foreston quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Sumter quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Sumter quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

241 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 241 fires within 5 miles of Cypress Fork Crossroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,619 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 51 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 burning	94
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	76
Arson/incendiarism	51
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Natural	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	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
30 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2001	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 2005	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 August 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
18 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clarendon 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
Brewington (historical)	3.4 miles	17
Wilson Crossroads	4.4 miles	16
Gable	5.7 miles	16
Trinity Cross Roads	5.9 miles	16
Union Crossroads	6.0 miles	8
Sardinia	6.0 miles	16
Wilson	6.2 miles	17
Durant	7.1 miles	16

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 Q122557000

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 1247475. 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.