Wolf Pond Cross Roads, South Carolina

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Pageland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29728. The Survey maps it on the Tradesville quadrangle.

Wolf Pond Cross Roads within Chesterfield County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1941 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Tradesville quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

174 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 174 fires within 5 miles of Wolf Pond Cross Roads between 1992 and 2019, burning about 320 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 15 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	72
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	36
Equipment and vehicle use	31
Arson/incendiarism	15
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Smoking	7
Natural	3

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
8 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	North Carolina Forest Service	MEDLIN RD 2
7 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	North Carolina Forest Service	AUSTIN RD
29 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	North Carolina Forest Service	WALTERS MILL RD
25 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	North Carolina Forest Service	SANDY RIDGE RD.
22 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	North Carolina Forest Service	GULLEDGE PARKER ROAD
20 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	North Carolina Forest Service	CORN
16 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	3.7 acres	North Carolina Forest Service	JACK DAVIS ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chesterfield 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
Dudley	2.9 miles	13
Crowburg	4.8 miles	13
Five Forks	6.5 miles	12
High Point	6.5 miles	13
Pageland	7.8 miles	13
White Plains	9.5 miles	12
Mangums (historical)	10.5 miles	13
Evans Mill	11.2 miles	13

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 Q122591364

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 1235808. 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.