Delemar Crossroads, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1990. It lies in ZIP code area 29470. The Survey maps it on the Osborn quadrangle.

Delemar Crossroads within Charleston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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.

1918 USGS Cottageville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1943 USGS Cottageville quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Osborn quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Walterboro quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Walterboro quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

89 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Delemar Crossroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 745 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 20 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	36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23
Arson/incendiarism	20
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Fireworks	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
5 September 1999	Natural	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Debris and open burning	34 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 August 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 July 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 July 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charleston 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
Warren Crossroads	1.9 miles	16
Capwells Crossroads	4.7 miles	16
Martins Landing	5.8 miles	16
Ravenel	6.0 miles	16
Jericho	6.3 miles	16
Canady Landing	6.7 miles	16
Osborn	7.1 miles	16
Berry Hill	7.7 miles	19

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 Q122545997

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 1227891. 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.