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Pinckney Crossroad, South Carolina

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Shaw AFB-Horatio census division. It stands on Spann Branch. The Survey maps it on the Sumter West quadrangle.

Pinckney Crossroad within Sumter County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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.

Fires near this place

397 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 397 fires within 5 miles of Pinckney Crossroad between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,407 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 30 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 burning200
Missing data/not specified/undetermined110
Arson/incendiarism30
Misuse of fire by a minor28
Equipment and vehicle use11
Smoking8
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Natural3
Other causes2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2000Debris and open burning4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2005Arson/incendiarism15 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2014Other causesunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2007Debris and open burning2.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Debris and open burning40 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sumter County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Pinckney Crossroad: 1 prospect, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Iron, Zirconium, Thorium, Titanium, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
HoratioIron, Zirconium, Thorium, TitaniumUnknownPlacer , Modern , Fluvial
Smg PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Victor Moise ProspectIronProspect

Every working recorded in Sumter 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Springbank Hills0.8 miles14
Oakland0.8 miles17
Shaw Heights0.9 miles17
Home Acres0.9 miles17
Catchall1.1 miles16
General Sumter Estates1.7 miles17
Marden Ranchettes2.0 miles17
Sanders Corner2.5 miles19

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 Q122540822The 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 1227960. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.