Sinclair Crossroads, South Carolina

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Little Rock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29536. It stands on Wash Branch. The Survey maps it on the Minturn quadrangle.

Sinclair Crossroads within Dillon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1953 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Minturn quadrangle1:24000
1976 USGS Minturn quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Laurinburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

278 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 278 fires within 5 miles of Sinclair Crossroads between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,654 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 99 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	99
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	70
Debris and open burning	58
Equipment and vehicle use	29
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Natural	5
Smoking	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
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
9 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2012	Natural	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 2018	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dillon 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
Minturn	0.8 miles	8
Judson	2.2 miles	8
Galavon	2.2 miles	7
McCormick Crossroads	2.3 miles	7
Carolina	3.6 miles	8
Manning Crossroads	3.7 miles	7
Little Rock	4.8 miles	7
Oakland Crossroads	5.3 miles	10

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 Q122551092

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 1250903. 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.