Baxter Forks, South Carolina

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Conway census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29526. It stands on Horse Creek. The Survey maps it on the Adrian quadrangle.

Baxter Forks within Horry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

1943 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1944 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:31680
1949 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Kingstree quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

289 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 289 fires within 5 miles of Baxter Forks between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,345 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 76 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	105
Arson/incendiarism	76
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	75
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Natural	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
28 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 2007	Natural	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
14 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 August 2002	Debris and open burning	317 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Horry 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
Privetts	0.9 miles	9
Howells	1.0 miles	11
Adrian	1.9 miles	9
Bayboro	2.5 miles	8
Baker Crossroads	2.5 miles	9
Gurley	2.5 miles	9
Booth	2.8 miles	9
Poplar Forks	2.9 miles	9

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 Q122562955

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 1227865. 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.