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.
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
- Saluda County Bridge No. 4, Road S-26 spanning Clouds Creek, Jones Crossroadsfederal building survey, 5 photographs
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 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
- 1964 USGS Emory quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Aiken quadrangle1:100000
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.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
123 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 49 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 37 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 18 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 11 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whittle Quarry | Granite, Stone, Dimension | Unknown | Igneous |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Richland | 2.4 miles | 11 | |
| Mount Willing | 2.6 miles | 12 | |
| Emory | 3.0 miles | 11 | |
| Blacks | 3.8 miles | 11 | |
| Traus (historical) | 4.3 miles | 11 | |
| Holston Crossroads | 4.5 miles | 11 | |
| Merchant (historical) | 4.9 miles | 12 | |
| Speigner | 6.1 miles | 11 |
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.






