Fenwick Grove, South Carolina

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Pamplico census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29505. It stands on Billy Branch. The Survey maps it on the Florence East quadrangle.

Fenwick Grove within Florence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1940 USGS Florence East quadrangle1:62500
1945 USGS Florence East quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Florence quadrangle1:100000
1986 USGS Florence East quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

453 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 453 fires within 5 miles of Fenwick Grove between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,072 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 81 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/undetermined	155
Debris and open burning	136
Arson/incendiarism	81
Misuse of fire by a minor	54
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Natural	6
Smoking	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Other causes	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2010	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Smoking	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1997	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Florence 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Brandon Woods	0.6 miles	9
Parkwood	0.6 miles	9
Burch Crossroads	0.6 miles	9
Park City	0.7 miles	9
Tara Hills	0.8 miles	11
East View Estates	0.8 miles	9
Greenwood Estates	0.9 miles	9
Tara Village	1.0 miles	11

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 Q122595142

The 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 1241878. 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.