Johnson Crossroads, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the New Ellenton census division. The Survey maps it on the New Ellenton quadrangle.

Johnson Crossroads within Aiken County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

1920 USGS Talatha quadrangle1:48000
1921 USGS Talatha quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1943 USGS Augusta East quadrangle1:125000
1943 USGS Talatha 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
1965 USGS New Ellenton quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1982 USGS Barnwell quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

212 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 212 fires within 5 miles of Johnson Crossroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 934 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 19 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	85
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	58
Natural	19
Arson/incendiarism	19
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	11
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Smoking	2
Other causes	2
Fireworks	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
7 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2004	Misuse of fire by a minor	10 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2003	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Aiken 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
Talatha	1.1 miles	18
New Ellenton	2.1 miles	18
Dry Branch	3.4 miles	18
Oak Hill	3.7 miles	18
Hawthorne (historical)	4.1 miles	18
Hollow Creek	5.6 miles	19
Talatha Farms	6.3 miles	18
Chukker Creek	6.5 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1246186. 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.