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Jones Crossroads, South Carolina

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Ridge Spring census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29006. The Survey maps it on the Emory quadrangle.

Jones Crossroads within Saluda County

On record in Jones Crossroads

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Saluda County Bridge No. 4, Road S-26 spanning Clouds Creek, Jones Crossroads, Saluda County, SC
Saluda County Bridge No. 4, Road S-26 spanning Clouds Creek, Jones Crossroads, Saluda County, SC
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

123 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 123 fires within 5 miles of Jones Crossroads between 1992 and 2018, burning about 252 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 6 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 burning49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Equipment and vehicle use18
Natural8
Arson/incendiarism6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 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 Jones 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
Richland2.4 miles11
Mount Willing2.6 miles12
Emory3.0 miles11
Blacks3.8 miles11
Traus (historical)4.3 miles11
Holston Crossroads4.5 miles11
Merchant (historical)4.9 miles12
Speigner6.1 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1246197. 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.