Perkins Crossroads, South Carolina

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Danwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29541. It stands on Alligator Branch. The Survey maps it on the Effingham quadrangle.

Perkins Crossroads within Florence 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.

1940 USGS Florence West quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1945 USGS Florence West quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Florence quadrangle1:100000
1986 USGS Effingham quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

610 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 610 fires within 5 miles of Perkins Crossroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,397 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 154 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	196
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	166
Arson/incendiarism	154
Misuse of fire by a minor	49
Equipment and vehicle use	26
Smoking	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Natural	3
Fireworks	1
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
6 September 2007	Misuse of fire by a minor	10 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2010	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Smoking	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2011	Debris and open burning	20 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2009	Debris and open burning	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
Alligator Lake	1.6 miles	11
Peniel Crossroads	2.2 miles	10
South Point	2.8 miles	11
Colonial Forest	2.8 miles	11
Ashwood Estates	2.9 miles	11
Kings Grant	3.1 miles	11
Pine Grove	3.2 miles	11
Savannah Grove	3.2 miles	11

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 Q122549093

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 1231642. 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.