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Briarcliffe Acres, South Carolina

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Little River census division. It stands on Camp Branch Run. The Survey maps it on the Wampee quadrangle. 479 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Briarcliffe Acres within Horry County

Population over time

3 figures

Briarcliffe Acres grew from 470 to 479 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2000470
2010457-13 (-3%)
2020479+22 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

60 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Briarcliffe Acres between 1993 and 2019, burning about 2,895 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 18 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 burning26
Arson/incendiarism18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Natural2

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
14 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 July 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 July 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Horry 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 Briarcliffe Acres: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Iron. 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
Myrtle BeachTitanium, IronUnknownPlacer , Modern , Beach

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Skimmer Bay1.0 miles12
The Forest1.1 miles12
Briarwood1.3 miles12
Timber Ridge1.7 miles8
Atlantic Beach1.8 miles8
Arcadian Shores1.9 miles12
Green Lakes2.1 miles12
Pinewood Acres2.3 miles8

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.

Wikipedia article on Briarcliffe AcresAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3306696The 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 1227842. 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.