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Dog Bluff, South Carolina

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Aynor census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29544. The Survey maps it on the Horry quadrangle.

Dog Bluff within Horry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Photographs

1 photograph, 2017

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

An old, typical South Carolina barn with an overhanging tin roof near Dog Bluff in Horry County, South Carolina
An old, typical South Carolina barn with an overhanging tin roof near Dog Bluff in Horry County, South Carolina
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

260 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 260 fires within 5 miles of Dog Bluff between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,364 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 75 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/undetermined84
Debris and open burning82
Arson/incendiarism75
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
30 September 2001Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 1997Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 2007Naturalunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Horry County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dog Bluff in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 hail. 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 2015Thunderstorm WindDog Bluff$1,000A tree was reported down on Jordanville Road.
July 2014HailDog Bluff$1,000Golf ball size hail was reported in the community of Dog Bluff. The report was relayed through the media.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindDog Bluff-Large limbs down across Dog Bluff Road in Aynor.
August 2012FloodDog Bluff-Pee Dee Road was closed due to flooding near Jordanville Road.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindDog Bluff-Three trees were reported down on Dog Bluff Road near Highway 501.

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
Gideon0.1 miles8
Jonestown1.0 miles8
Rehobeth1.2 miles8
Tompkins2.0 miles8
Jones Crossroads2.8 miles8
Pleasant Hill2.8 miles8
Aynor3.5 miles8
Red Hill3.7 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.

Wikidata item Q122561723The 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 1222055. 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.

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.