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Harvins Crossroads, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Sumter Southwest census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29154. The Survey maps it on the Privateer quadrangle.

Harvins Crossroads within Sumter County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

Fires near this place

401 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 401 fires within 5 miles of Harvins Crossroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,689 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 83 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 burning168
Missing data/not specified/undetermined108
Arson/incendiarism83
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Equipment and vehicle use14
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1
Other causes1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
8 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2014Natural10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use3.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sumter County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Harvins Crossroads: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Sumter Asphalt PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Sumter 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
Privateer1.3 miles15
Forest Lake Estates1.8 miles15
Briarcliff Estates2.6 miles15
Southgate3.4 miles15
Spring Lake4.2 miles17
Ashley Creek Village4.4 miles17
Tindal4.4 miles14
Twin Lakes4.5 miles17

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 Q122556938The 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 1244554. 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.