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White Bluff Corssroads, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Kershaw census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29067. It stands on Lick Creek. The Survey maps it on the Taxahaw quadrangle.

White Bluff Corssroads within Lancaster County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

142 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of White Bluff Corssroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 565 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 16 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/undetermined66
Debris and open burning37
Arson/incendiarism16
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural5
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use45 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lancaster County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of White Bluff Corssroads: 12 past producers, 4 unknowns, 2 prospects, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Granite, Stone, Dimension. 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
Blackmon MineGold, MicaUnknown1840, 1906
Old Sumter Granite QuarryGranite, Stone, DimensionPast ProducerIgneous
Taxehaw Granite QuarryGranite, Stone, DimensionPast ProducerIgneous
Unidentified Clay PitClayUnknownSedimentary
Unidentified Clay PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Parker Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Unidentified Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Unidentified Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Blackmon MineGoldPast Producer
Brassington MineGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lancaster 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
Midway2.4 miles13
Pleasant Plain3.1 miles14
Taxahaw3.1 miles13
Fork Hill Crossroads3.2 miles13
Midway Crossroads4.1 miles14
Primus4.4 miles13
Rich Hill Crossroads4.9 miles13
Union5.0 miles13

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 Q122566887The 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 1251407. 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.