East Chester, South Carolina

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Myrtle Beach Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Stationlisted 2002 · 0.9 miles away
• Sun Fun Motellisted 2020 · 0.2 miles away
• Myrtle Beach Downtown Historic Districtlisted 2019 · 0.9 miles away

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.

• 1937 USGS Myrtle Beach quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1937 USGS Myrtle Beach quadrangle1:48000
• 1940 USGS Myrtle Beach quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1949 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
• 1974 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1984 USGS Ocean Forest quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Myrtle Beach quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Myrtle Beach quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of East Chester between 1992 and 2019, burning about 418 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 20 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Myrtle Beach
• Myrtle Heights
• Oak Park
• Washington Park
• Dogwood
• Scott Acres

Every fire recorded in Horry County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of East Chester: 1 producer, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, 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.

Every working recorded in Horry County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1243700. 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.