Motts Crossroads, South Carolina

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Olanta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29114. The Survey maps it on the Olanta quadrangle.

Motts Crossroads within Florence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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.

1946 USGS Lake City quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Kingstree quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1990 USGS Olanta quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

502 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 502 fires within 5 miles of Motts Crossroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,353 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 120 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	176
Debris and open burning	165
Arson/incendiarism	120
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Misuse of fire by a minor	11
Natural	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Other causes	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	2
Fireworks	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 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2011	Other causes	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Florence 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
Byrds Crossroads	2.5 miles	8
Mimms Crossroads	2.8 miles	8
Olanta	3.3 miles	8
Hamville (historical)	3.8 miles	10
Cusac Crossroads	4.1 miles	10
McKenzie Crossroads	4.5 miles	8
Sardis	4.7 miles	10
Sparrows Crossroads	5.4 miles	10

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 Q122561714

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 1242065. 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.