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Trinity Cross Roads, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Shiloh census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29080. The Survey maps it on the Turbeville quadrangle.

Trinity Cross Roads within Sumter County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 16 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

477 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 477 fires within 5 miles of Trinity Cross Roads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,412 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 146 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 burning152
Missing data/not specified/undetermined150
Arson/incendiarism146
Smoking9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural7
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
6 September 1997Debris and open burning10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.6 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2001Debris and open burning25 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Arson/incendiarism2.0 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

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Trinity Cross Roads: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Columbia QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

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
Pleasant Grove2.2 miles16
Shiloh2.4 miles16
Scottsville5.1 miles17
Norwood Crossroad6.8 miles8
Hobbs Crossroads6.9 miles10
Mayesville7.4 miles17
Shaws Crossroads10.4 miles16
Brunsons Store10.6 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1244753. 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.