Owens Crossroad, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Kline-Snelling census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29812. The Survey maps it on the Snelling quadrangle.

Owens Crossroad within Barnwell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

1919 USGS Allendale quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1943 USGS Allendale quadrangle1:62500
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
1979 USGS Snelling quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Barnwell quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

200 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 200 fires within 5 miles of Owens Crossroad between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,358 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 23 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	74
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	61
Arson/incendiarism	23
Misuse of fire by a minor	13
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Smoking	8
Natural	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1999	Natural	15 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2011	Natural	8.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barnwell 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
Boiling Springs	2.2 miles	16
Yenome	3.4 miles	16
Kline	3.8 miles	16
Patterson Mill	4.4 miles	16
Hells Half Acre	6.0 miles	16
Hagoods Mill	6.0 miles	16
Happy Bottom	6.3 miles	16
Snelling	6.4 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 Q122570235

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 1227956. 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.