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Johnson Crossroads, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Edgefield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29824. The Survey maps it on the Red Hill quadrangle.

Johnson Crossroads within Edgefield County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

90 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Johnson Crossroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 641 acres in total. 10 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Debris and open burning31
Natural10
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
Firearms and explosives use1

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
3 September 2010Debris and open burning1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsWASH
23 August 2007Natural2.1 acresFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsLINE TREE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Edgefield 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
Antioch1.0 miles16
West Store Crossroads1.1 miles16
Millers Crossroads3.2 miles23
Brunson Crossroads4.2 miles16
Colliers4.6 miles23
Cleora4.8 miles16
Edgefield6.6 miles12
Ropers Crossroads7.2 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1246184. 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.