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Cherry Grove Beach, 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 lies in ZIP code area 29582. It stands on Salt Flat Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wampee quadrangle.

Cherry Grove Beach within Horry County

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

75 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Cherry Grove Beach between 1992 and 2020, burning about 278 acres in total. None started naturally. 15 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Debris and open burning24
Arson/incendiarism15
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Fireworks2
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
18 September 1998Debris and open burning30 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.1 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 2011Fireworks2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 July 2005Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 July 2012Fireworks1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 July 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 June 2002Debris and open burningunder 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 Cherry Grove Beach: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Cedar Creek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Horry County

Storms near this place

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cherry Grove Beach in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 3 flash flood, 2 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
July 2022Flash FloodCherry Grove Beach$10,000Video of flash flooding was recorded entering the Buena Vista Plaza hotel in North Myrtle Beach.
August 2024Flash FloodCherry Grove Beach$5,000Spring Street is washed out along 20th Avenue North and 21st Avenue North in Cherry Grove Beach.
June 2024LightningCherry Grove Beach$3,000Lightning caused an attic fire in a home on 33rd Avenue in Cherry Grove.
August 2024Flash FloodCherry Grove Beach$1,000Flash flooding reported along several residential roads in Cherry Grove Beach.
August 2023Tornado (EF0)Cherry Grove Beach-Waterspout was observed moving ashore near Ocean Blvd. and 56th|Avenue North. It tracked north-northwest causing sporadic damage|to homes in the Cherry Grove area. It then crossed Williams Creek|into the Tidewater Golf Club, downing a few trees and numerous|large limbs. There were likely a few brief spin-ups in the|vicinity of the waterspout as it came ashore.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindCherry Grove Beach-A weather station along the coast in Cherry Grove measured a wind gust of 59 mph.
February 2020Thunderstorm WindCherry Grove Beach-Downed palm trees blocked the intersection of 22nd Ave N and N Ocean Blvd.
July 1996Tornado (F0)Cherry Grove Beach-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
Heritage Shores0.6 miles8
Tilghman Estates0.7 miles8
Hollywood1.0 miles8
Robbers Roost Villas1.1 miles8
Creekside1.3 miles8
The Grove1.3 miles8
Ocean Drive Beach1.7 miles8
Kingswood1.7 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 Cherry Grove BeachAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5092359The 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 1227843. 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.