Lawtonville Crossroads, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Estill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29918. The Survey maps it on the Solomons Crossroads quadrangle.

Lawtonville Crossroads within Hampton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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 Peeples quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1943 USGS Peeples quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Solomons Crossroads quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Sylvania quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

302 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 302 fires within 5 miles of Lawtonville Crossroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,660 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 79 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	107
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	86
Arson/incendiarism	79
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Natural	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1997	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2012	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hampton 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
Estill	1.5 miles	16
Lena	2.9 miles	16
Peeples (historical)	3.4 miles	15
Luray	4.4 miles	16
Valentine	4.8 miles	15
Steep Bottom (historical)	5.1 miles	16
Scotia	5.3 miles	16
Nixville	6.3 miles	16

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 Q122564843

The 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 1246316. 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.