Simpson Crossing, South Carolina

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Bonneau census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29461. It stands on Mingo Branch. The Survey maps it on the Cordesville quadrangle.

Simpson Crossing within Berkeley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1919 USGS Cordesville quadrangle1:48000, 2 printings
1948 USGS Cordesville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1949 USGS Cordesville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1949 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

424 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 424 fires within 5 miles of Simpson Crossing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,297 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 141 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
Arson/incendiarism	141
Debris and open burning	135
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	108
Misuse of fire by a minor	16
Smoking	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Natural	5
Other causes	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
9 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkeley 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
Santee Circle	0.7 miles	12
Macbeth	1.2 miles	9
Kitfield (historical)	2.0 miles	12
Cherry Hill	2.2 miles	12
Wampee	3.0 miles	18
Mittenlane	3.6 miles	12
Pinopolis	3.7 miles	18
Stony Landing	3.9 miles	12

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 Q122539027

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 1231800. 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.