Fairs Crossroads, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Due West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29639. It stands on Chickasaw Creek. The Survey maps it on the Due West quadrangle.

Fairs Crossroads within Abbeville County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1892 USGS Abbeville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Due West quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Abbeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

196 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 196 fires within 5 miles of Fairs Crossroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 437 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 33 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	64
Debris and open burning	59
Arson/incendiarism	33
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Smoking	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Natural	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
9 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	21 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2005	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Abbeville 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
Iris	1.6 miles	13
Buck Stand	3.0 miles	13
Cold Spring	3.5 miles	15
Level Land	4.0 miles	13
Dover (historical)	4.1 miles	15
Due West	4.3 miles	13
Gilgal	4.4 miles	13
Arborville	4.5 miles	13

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 Q122597269

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 1247709. 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.