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Dongola, South Carolina

8 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 Sarah Branch. The Survey maps it on the Dongola quadrangle.

Dongola 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.

Fires near this place

163 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 163 fires within 5 miles of Dongola between 1992 and 2020, burning about 640 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 62 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/incendiarism62
Debris and open burning44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined41
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Other causes1
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
22 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use1.0 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/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2016Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 2000Natural2.0 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

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Dongola: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Cannon PitStone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, GeneralProducerSedimentary
Unnamed Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Unnamed Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Horry County

Storms near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dongola in 1 storm report in 2012: 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
March 2012HailDongola$250Hail to the size of nickels was reported.

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
Canon Hill2.0 miles8
Gilbert Crossroads2.4 miles10
Brownway3.0 miles8
Hendricks Corner4.4 miles8
Twelvemile4.7 miles8
Singleton Crossroads5.4 miles8
Forney5.4 miles8
Bunker Hill5.5 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231233. 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.