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Bucksport, 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 29527. It stands on Nimrod Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bucksville quadrangle. 745 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.

Bucksport within Horry County

Population over time

2 figures

Bucksport fell from 876 to 745 between 2010 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
2010876
2020745-131 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

122 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Bucksport between 1992 and 2020, burning about 917 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 25 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 burning44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Arson/incendiarism25
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2

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
3 September 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2007Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
1 August 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 July 2007Naturalunder an acreSouth 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 Bucksport: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Asphalt Products PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Horry County

Storms near this place

11 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bucksport in 11 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 4 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2016Flash FloodBucksport$750,000Boyne Drive, in the Cameron Village Community, was reported flooded. Numerous homes were impacted by the flood waters.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindBucksport$25,000A possible tornado could not be verified, but strong thunderstorm winds downed trees near the Intracoastal Waterway from Bucksport to Socastee.
September 2019Tornado (EF0)Bucksport$10,000A gentlemen living in a condo witnessed a funnel cloud briefly touchdown,|only minimal damage took place. Several fascia boards were torn off one|of the condos and two 24 oak trees were partially uprooted at the |beginning of the path. The trees did not completely fall over as they|were kept up at an angle by other larger hardwood trees.
July 2016HailBucksport$250Hail to the size of quarters was reported on E Sweetbriar Trail.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindBucksport-A tree was reported down on Chamberlin Rd in Cypress River Plantation.
April 2025HailBucksport-Hail fell from along Bay Road near Socastee.
December 2023Flash FloodBucksport-South Carolina Highway Patrol reports Bay Road flooded.
June 2007HailBucksport-Quarter size hail was reported along highway US 701.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindBucksport-Numerous power lines were down along US Hwy 701.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindBucksport-Numerous large trees were reported down. Quarter size hail was also reported in the area.
July 1997HailBucksport-no account filed

Every storm 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
Port Harrelson (historical)1.4 miles9
Eddy Lake (historical)1.4 miles9
Klondike2.0 miles9
Enterprise Landing2.2 miles9
Peachtree Landing3.5 miles9
Longwood Landing4.2 miles11
Bucksville4.3 miles9
Burgess4.7 miles11

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 BucksportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2786037The 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 1231099. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.