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Dwight Crossroads, South Carolina

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

Dwight Crossroads within Lancaster County

On record in Dwight 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 13 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

187 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 187 fires within 5 miles of Dwight Crossroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 694 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 8 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 burning79
Missing data/not specified/undetermined64
Equipment and vehicle use18
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Arson/incendiarism8
Smoking4
Natural3
Other causes1
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 1999Debris and open burning10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lancaster County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Dwight Crossroads: 7 past producers, 2 unknowns, 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
Johnson MineGoldPast Producer
Johnson MineGoldUnknownVein
Knight ProspectGoldPast Producer
Massey MineGoldPast Producer
Stevens MineGoldUnknownVein
Stevens MineGoldPast Producer
Stroud ProspectGoldOccurrence
Stroud ProspectGoldPast Producer

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
Buford0.5 miles13
Lingles Crossroads0.9 miles14
Union2.0 miles13
Antioch Acres3.0 miles13
New Cut3.5 miles14
Pleasant Dale3.6 miles13
Doctor Sapps Crossroads3.8 miles14
Camp Creek3.9 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 Q122550466The 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 1247583. 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.