Sparrows Crossroads, South Carolina

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Timmonsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29161. It stands on Horse Branch. The Survey maps it on the Sardis quadrangle.

Sparrows Crossroads within Florence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1940 USGS Florence West quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1945 USGS Florence West quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Florence quadrangle1:100000
1986 USGS Sardis quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

520 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 520 fires within 5 miles of Sparrows Crossroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,502 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 145 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	173
Debris and open burning	149
Arson/incendiarism	145
Equipment and vehicle use	28
Misuse of fire by a minor	12
Natural	5
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Other causes	1
Fireworks	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
30 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2011	Debris and open burning	20 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	8.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2010	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 Florence 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
Jones Crossroads	1.4 miles	10
Sansbury Crossroads	2.3 miles	10
Peniel Crossroads	2.7 miles	10
Hamville (historical)	2.8 miles	10
Hollman Crossroads	3.0 miles	10
Cusac Crossroads	3.1 miles	10
Johnson Crossroads	3.3 miles	10
Sardis	3.5 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 Q122562981

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 1242204. 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.