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Bucksville, 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. The Survey maps it on the Bucksville quadrangle.

Bucksville within Horry County

On record in Bucksville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

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

179 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 179 fires within 5 miles of Bucksville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,574 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 37 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 burning60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined52
Arson/incendiarism37
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1

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
26 September 2001Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2007Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 August 2002Natural15 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 August 2007Debris and open burning4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder 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

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Bucksville: 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand. 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
Socastee PitSandUnknownSedimentary
Asphalt Products PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Plant Number 9Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Horry County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bucksville in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2026: 1 heavy rain, 1 lightning. 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
April 2026LightningBucksville$5,000Lightning struck a home on Farrier Drive, causing damage and displacing three people.
July 2013Heavy RainBucksville-Heavy rain produced minor flooding on Debbie Lane.

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
Rheuark Landing1.4 miles9
Keys Field1.7 miles9
Peachtree Landing1.8 miles9
Toddville2.8 miles9
Enterprise Landing3.4 miles9
Klondike3.5 miles9
Coopers3.6 miles9
Port Harrelson (historical)4.0 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1247045. 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.