Gaddys Crossroads, South Carolina

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Lake View census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29536. It stands on Canaan Branch. The Survey maps it on the Dillon East quadrangle.

Gaddys Crossroads within Dillon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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
1960 USGS Dillon East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1976 USGS Dillon East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Florence quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

338 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 338 fires within 5 miles of Gaddys Crossroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,706 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 78 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	105
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	98
Arson/incendiarism	78
Equipment and vehicle use	24
Misuse of fire by a minor	21
Natural	5
Smoking	3
Other causes	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2005	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dillon 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
Oliver Crossroads	1.1 miles	9
Gaddys Mill	1.1 miles	9
Pittman Corner	3.2 miles	6
Riverdale	3.3 miles	9
Hayestown	3.6 miles	6
Mount Calvary	4.3 miles	9
High Hill Crossroads	4.4 miles	9
Carmichael Crossroads	4.7 miles	9

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 Q122558327

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 1247854. 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.