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Pine House Crossroads, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Trenton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29847. The Survey maps it on the Trenton quadrangle.

Pine House Crossroads within Edgefield County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

180 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 180 fires within 5 miles of Pine House Crossroads between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,125 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined74
Debris and open burning56
Equipment and vehicle use13
Arson/incendiarism12
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Natural6
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Other causes2
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
5 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined17 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2007Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry CommissionTRENTON
19 September 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2009Equipment and vehicle use75 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Edgefield County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Pine House Crossroads: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Granite, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Edgefield Granite QuarryGranite, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerIgneous Intrusion
Unidentified Granite QuarryGranite, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerIgneous Intrusion

Every working recorded in Edgefield 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
Rotalata0.9 miles18
Trenton1.0 miles18
Parkhill2.8 miles12
Huets Crossroads3.1 miles12
Bouknight3.8 miles11
Swearingen (historical)4.0 miles17
Harmony4.6 miles11
Wise (historical)4.8 miles17

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 Q122571338The 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 1250116. 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.