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Crescent 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. The Survey maps it on the Wampee quadrangle. It stands 16 feet above sea level.

Crescent 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

93 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Crescent Beach between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,251 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 24 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 burning33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Arson/incendiarism24
Natural2
Fireworks2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
24 September 2009Debris and open burning1.2 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 July 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth 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

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 Crescent Beach: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Iron. 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
Myrtle BeachTitanium, IronUnknownPlacer , Modern , Beach

Every working recorded in Horry County

Storms near this place

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crescent Beach in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 2019: 2 lightning, 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
June 2019LightningCrescent Beach$50,000The Myrtle Beach Fire Dept reported a fire in a multi-family dwelling that started from a lightning strike in the 3300 Block of South Ocean Blvd.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindCrescent Beach-Thunderstorms, some locally severe, moved northeast across coastal South Carolina knocking down trees and interrupting electrical service in scattered areas from Jasper County northeast to northern Horry County. Wind speeds of 60 mph were reported 4 SE of the Charleston Airport, wind gusts to 62 mph at the Santee Cooper Lakes, and 88 mph with sustained speeds of 58 mph at the Springmaid Pier in Myrtle Beach.
July 1996LightningCrescent 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
Pinewood Acres0.8 miles8
Ingram Beach0.9 miles8
Atlantic Beach0.9 miles8
North Myrtle Beach1.2 miles8
Belle Park1.3 miles8
Timber Ridge1.3 miles8
Forest Lake1.5 miles8
Ocean Drive Beach1.6 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 Crescent BeachAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5184333The 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 1231203. 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.