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Keitts Crossroads, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Newberry census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29108. The Survey maps it on the Newberry East quadrangle.

Keitts Crossroads within Newberry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

100 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Keitts Crossroads between 1992 and 2019, burning about 269 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined56
Debris and open burning21
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural6
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
26 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 1997Natural25 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 1997Natural30 acresFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsKINGS CREEK
30 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 2008Natural4.5 acresFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsSUPPER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newberry County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Keitts Crossroads: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Granite, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Dimension, Granite. 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
Leitzey QuarryStone, Dimension, GranitePast ProducerIgneous
Browns QuarryGranite, Stone, DimensionPast ProducerIgneous
Unidentified Granite QuarryGranite, Stone, DimensionPast ProducerIgneous
Unnamed Granite QuarryGranite, Stone, DimensionPast ProducerIgneous

Every working recorded in Newberry 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
Browns Crossroads2.0 miles13
Sondleys (historical)2.0 miles14
Reuben (historical)2.0 miles14
Mount Bethel (historical)2.8 miles13
Saint Phillips2.9 miles13
Hayne (historical)4.8 miles14
Union5.3 miles13
Taylors Crossroads5.4 miles14

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 Q122559672The 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 1246224. 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.