Union Crossroads, South Carolina

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Sardinia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29111. It stands on Cain Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hebron Crossroads quadrangle.

Union Crossroads within Clarendon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1946 USGS Lake City quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Kingstree quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1990 USGS Hebron Crossroads quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

309 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 309 fires within 5 miles of Union Crossroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,847 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 80 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 burning	109
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	97
Arson/incendiarism	80
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Natural	7
Smoking	4
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
5 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2009	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	14 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2019	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 Clarendon 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
New Zion	3.7 miles	16
Beards Crossroads	5.0 miles	16
Sardinia	5.6 miles	16
Seloc	5.6 miles	16
Cypress Fork Crossroads	6.0 miles	17
Barrineau Crossroads	6.4 miles	8
Turbeville	6.4 miles	16
Gable	6.7 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1251264. 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.