Mathais Crossroads, South Carolina

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Edgefield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29832. The Survey maps it on the Saluda South quadrangle.

Mathais Crossroads within Edgefield County

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.

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 Saluda South quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Aiken quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

113 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Mathais Crossroads between 1992 and 2019, burning about 318 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined	46
Debris and open burning	37
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Arson/incendiarism	7
Natural	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Smoking	2
Other causes	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 2018	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Edgefield 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
Tompkins Cross Roads	3.9 miles	11
Meeting Street	4.7 miles	11
Johnston	5.5 miles	11
Harmony	6.5 miles	11
Pleasant Lane	6.6 miles	11
Bouknight	7.3 miles	11
Edgefield	7.7 miles	12
Huets Crossroads	8.2 miles	12

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 Q122560287

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 1228984. 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.