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Sumter Junction, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Sumter Southwest census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29168. The Survey maps it on the Poinsett State Park quadrangle.

Sumter Junction within Sumter County

On record in Sumter Junction

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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.

Fires near this place

117 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Sumter Junction between 1992 and 2018, burning about 965 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 25 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
Debris and open burning40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Arson/incendiarism25
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
30 September 2003Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Railroad operations and maintenance72 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2005Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2010Debris and open burning16 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1999Debris and open burning12 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sumter County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Sumter Junction: 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Wedgefield MineClayUnknownSedimentary
Wedgefield Waterree PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Sumter 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Malta3.0 miles14
Foxville3.5 miles14
Wedgewood4.4 miles14
Wedgefield4.7 miles14
Milford6.3 miles13
Dixie Crossing6.4 miles14
Harvins Crossroads6.7 miles15
Cane Savannah7.6 miles17

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 Q122563683The 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 1231845. 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.