Oakland Crossroads, South Carolina

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Little Rock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29547. The Survey maps it on the Rowland quadrangle.

Oakland Crossroads within Dillon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1953 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Rowland quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1976 USGS Rowland quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Laurinburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1997 USGS Rowland quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

408 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 408 fires within 5 miles of Oakland Crossroads between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,723 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 155 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
Arson/incendiarism	155
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	105
Debris and open burning	82
Equipment and vehicle use	30
Misuse of fire by a minor	16
Smoking	10
Natural	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Fireworks	2
Other causes	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
9 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2018	Other causes	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2010	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dillon 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
Carolina	4.5 miles	8
Hamer	4.6 miles	9
Little Rock	4.7 miles	7
Five Forks	4.8 miles	9
Sinclair Crossroads	5.3 miles	8
Galavon	5.4 miles	7
Judson	5.6 miles	8
Minturn	5.8 miles	8

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 Q122597729

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 1249929. 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.