Salem Crossroads, South Carolina

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Monticello-Salem Crossroads census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29015. The Survey maps it on the Salem Crossroads quadrangle.

Salem Crossroads within Fairfield County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

1904 USGS Columbia quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1941 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Salem Crossroads quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Newberry quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

121 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Salem Crossroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 398 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 7 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	50
Debris and open burning	27
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Natural	8
Arson/incendiarism	7
Recreation and ceremony	6
Smoking	3
Fireworks	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
29 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	4.4 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	FS400
26 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	1.4 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	ROCKEY BRANCH
12 September 2002	Smoking	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fairfield County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Salem Crossroads: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Granite, Stone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Anderson Quarry	Granite, Stone, Dimension	Past Producer	1898

Every working recorded in Fairfield 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
Old Buckhead	2.0 miles	14
Rock Creek	3.1 miles	14
Douglass	3.7 miles	14
Monticello	4.8 miles	15
Lebanon	5.0 miles	14
Blair	5.2 miles	15
Strother	5.5 miles	15
Dawkins	5.9 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1250730. 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.