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Cedar Grove, 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 Cedar Grove Branch. The Survey maps it on the Conway quadrangle.

Cedar Grove within Horry County

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

412 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 412 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Grove between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,064 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 137 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
Arson/incendiarism137
Debris and open burning121
Missing data/not specified/undetermined115
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural8
Recreation and ceremony3
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1

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
8 September 1997Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1998Arson/incendiarism11 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1998Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2006Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2002Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 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

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Cedar Grove: 4 producers, 4 past producers, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Calcium, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Bird QuarryStoneProducer
Buck MineSandProducerSedimentary
G and C QuarryCalciumProducer
Wacca Dee MineLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Wacca-Dee Materials Company MineStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Alice MineLimestone, GeneralUnknownSedimentary
Alice MineLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
G and C Mine (G&G Mine)Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, GeneralProducerSedimentary
Unnamed Coguina Pit(Bird Quarry)Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, GeneralPast Producer1980

Every working recorded in Horry County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cedar Grove in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2008Thunderstorm WindCedar Grove-Two large trees were reported down along Juniper Bay Road.

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
Oakey Bay0.7 miles8
Guiton Crossing1.9 miles8
Sand Ridge2.2 miles9
Ned Swamp2.5 miles8
El Bethel2.6 miles9
Quattlebaum Acres2.6 miles9
Forney2.6 miles8
Mary2.8 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1227881. 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.