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Dunbar, South Carolina

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Georgetown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29440. It stands on Lanes Creek. The Survey maps it on the Carvers Bay quadrangle. 615 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Dunbar within Georgetown 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

306 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 306 fires within 5 miles of Dunbar between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,371 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 74 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 burning117
Missing data/not specified/undetermined89
Arson/incendiarism74
Equipment and vehicle use10
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Debris and open burning1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Georgetown County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Dunbar: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Asphalt Plant No. 5Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mine #5Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Georgetown County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dunbar in 1 storm report in 2019: 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
April 2019Thunderstorm WindDunbar$1,000Trees were blown down across the road in Choppe.

Every storm recorded in Georgetown 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
Dunbar Landing0.5 miles9
Annieville1.7 miles9
Lanes Creek2.1 miles9
Oatland2.4 miles9
Post Foot Landing3.2 miles9
Choppee3.2 miles8
Francis Marion Estates3.6 miles8
Willie Towne4.2 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 DunbarAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q85845839The 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 1231244. 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.