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Farrell Crossroads, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Bamberg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29432. The Survey maps it on the Branchville South quadrangle.

Farrell Crossroads within Bamberg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 18 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

201 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 201 fires within 5 miles of Farrell Crossroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,504 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 16 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/undetermined79
Debris and open burning64
Arson/incendiarism16
Natural13
Equipment and vehicle use13
Smoking7
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2019Debris and open burning3.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bamberg 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 Farrell Crossroads: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Branchville #1 MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Branchville No.1 MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Deerfield Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Embree Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Bamberg 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
Embree3.2 miles18
Whetstone Crossroads4.6 miles18
Millersville (historical)5.8 miles18
Midway7.3 miles18
Clear Pond8.4 miles15
Hughes9.3 miles15
Bamberg10.3 miles15
Ehrhardt11.0 miles15

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 Q122547439The 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 1253471. 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.