Earlys Crossroads, South Carolina

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Darlington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29550. The Survey maps it on the Darlington West quadrangle.

Earlys Crossroads within Darlington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1953 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Darlington West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Florence quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

278 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 278 fires within 5 miles of Earlys Crossroads between 1992 and 2019, burning about 922 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 30 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	124
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	90
Arson/incendiarism	30
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Natural	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Smoking	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Other causes	2
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
6 September 2018	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2017	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2011	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2003	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1996	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 Darlington 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
Wineberg Crossroads	1.2 miles	7
Lewis Crossroads	2.0 miles	7
Iseman Crossroads	2.5 miles	7
Polson Crossroads	2.6 miles	14
Lunn	2.8 miles	7
Dubose Crossroads	3.0 miles	7
Tremont	3.1 miles	14
Flinns Crossroads	3.9 miles	14

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 Q122551765

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 1247593. 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.