Grays Crossroads, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Allendale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29810. The Survey maps it on the Allendale quadrangle.

Grays Crossroads within Allendale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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.

1919 USGS Allendale quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1943 USGS Allendale quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Allendale quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Barnwell quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

170 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 170 fires within 5 miles of Grays Crossroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 758 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 41 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	63
Arson/incendiarism	41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	26
Natural	11
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Smoking	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
8 September 2009	Smoking	1.3 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2005	Debris and open burning	15 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2018	Natural	10 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2019	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2019	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Allendale 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
Seigling	0.2 miles	15
Mathis (historical)	2.5 miles	15
Appleton	2.6 miles	15
Hayes Crossroads	2.6 miles	15
Allendale	2.8 miles	15
Woods Crossroads	4.7 miles	15
Moores Crossroads	4.8 miles	15
Sycamore	5.0 miles	15

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 Q122547145

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 1233121. 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.