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Masons Cross Road, South Carolina

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Pendleton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29625. It stands on Steel Creek. The Survey maps it on the La France quadrangle.

Masons Cross Road within Anderson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

92 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Masons Cross Road between 1992 and 2020, burning about 220 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined29
Debris and open burning25
Arson/incendiarism10
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Recreation and ceremony8
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
28 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 1999Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 2011Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 August 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
1 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Anderson 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 Masons Cross Road: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Unnamed Crushed Stone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerGranite Pluton

Every working recorded in Anderson 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
Leisure Village1.2 miles17
Pritchard Creek1.5 miles17
Rock Creek Acres1.6 miles17
Hunters Trail1.7 miles17
Quail Creek2.0 miles17
Hidden Lake2.2 miles17
The Shoals2.4 miles17
Caravelle Heights2.4 miles17

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 Q122556546The 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 1227944. 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.