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Holston Crossroads, South Carolina

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Batesburg-Leesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29006. It stands on Bates Branch. The Survey maps it on the Batesburg quadrangle.

Holston Crossroads within Saluda County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

87 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Holston Crossroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 302 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 3 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 burning33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural6
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony1
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
4 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 2002Naturalunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 2016Natural15 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saluda 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 Holston Crossroads: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Granite, Stone, Dimension. 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
Whittle QuarryGranite, Stone, DimensionUnknownIgneous

Every working recorded in Saluda 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
Hibernia2.8 miles11
Jones Crossroads4.5 miles11
Blacks4.7 miles11
Richland5.9 miles11
Ridge Spring6.8 miles11
Mount Willing6.8 miles12
Delmar7.4 miles12
Emory7.4 miles11

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 Q122567223The 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 1232586. 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.