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Doctor Sapps Crossroads, South Carolina

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Lancaster census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29720. The Survey maps it on the Unity quadrangle.

Doctor Sapps Crossroads within Lancaster County

On record in Doctor Sapps Crossroads

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

160 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 160 fires within 5 miles of Doctor Sapps Crossroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 432 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 10 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 burning68
Missing data/not specified/undetermined46
Equipment and vehicle use17
Arson/incendiarism10
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Natural5
Smoking4
Fireworks2

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 1999Debris and open burning10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreNorth Carolina Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.4 acresNorth Carolina Forest ServiceHOT FENCE
25 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Carolina Forest Servicenot named
14 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Carolina Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNorth Carolina Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lancaster County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Doctor Sapps Crossroads: 3 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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
Belk MineGoldPast Producer
Belk MineGoldPast Producer
Nesbitt MineGoldPast Producer1800, 1875
Nesbitt MineGoldOccurrence

Every working recorded in Lancaster 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
Sapps Crossroads0.7 miles14
Stewart Crossroads1.9 miles12
New Cut2.5 miles14
Lingles Crossroads2.9 miles14
Unity3.5 miles14
Dwight Crossroads3.8 miles13
Buford3.8 miles13
Camp Creek4.2 miles14

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 Q122546467The 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 1241630. 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.