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Cochran Town, 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 29526. It stands on Mary Branch. The Survey maps it on the Conway quadrangle.

Cochran Town 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

378 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 378 fires within 5 miles of Cochran Town between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,587 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 106 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/undetermined119
Debris and open burning118
Arson/incendiarism106
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
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
30 September 2001Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1998Arson/incendiarism11 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1998Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2016Debris and open burning3.0 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

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Cochran Town: 2 producers, 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
Wacca-Dee Materials Company MineStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
West MineLimestone, GeneralUnknownSedimentary
Godwin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
Godwin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

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
White Oak0.3 miles9
Chicora0.9 miles9
Darden Terrace1.0 miles9
El Bethel1.3 miles9
Homewood1.4 miles9
Country Club Forest1.6 miles9
Park Hill1.6 miles9
North Conway1.8 miles9

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.

Wikidata item Q122568568The 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 1243657. 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.