Ropers Crossroads, South Carolina

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Southeast Edgefield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29824. It stands on Burkhalter Branch. The Survey maps it on the Ropers Crossroads quadrangle.

Ropers Crossroads within Edgefield 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.

1923 USGS Warrenville quadrangle1:62500
1923 USGS Warrenville quadrangle1:48000
1928 USGS Warrenville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1943 USGS Warrenville 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
1964 USGS Ropers Crossroads quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Aiken quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

86 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Ropers Crossroads between 1992 and 2019, burning about 350 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined	33
Debris and open burning	31
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Natural	3
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
19 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	11 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 August 2007	Natural	1.7 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	TURN AROUND
22 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 August 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 August 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Highview (historical)	3.0 miles	17
Crafton (historical)	3.2 miles	17
Wise (historical)	3.2 miles	17
Swearingen (historical)	3.8 miles	17
Colliers	5.3 miles	23
Lenoir (historical)	5.6 miles	25
Murphys Estates	6.0 miles	20
West Store Crossroads	6.2 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1230256. 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.