Finklea, South Carolina

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Loris census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29569. It stands on Seed Tick Branch. The Survey maps it on the Loris quadrangle. 291 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 89 feet above sea level.

Finklea within Horry 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.

1953 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Loris quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Tabor City quadrangle1:62500
1986 USGS Whiteville quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Whiteville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

231 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 231 fires within 5 miles of Finklea between 1992 and 2020, burning about 988 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 59 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 burning	99
Arson/incendiarism	59
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	56
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Natural	3
Smoking	2
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
8 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2007	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Green Sea	1.9 miles	9
Princeville	2.5 miles	9
White Pond	2.8 miles	9
Playcards	3.3 miles	8
Live Oak	3.6 miles	9
Sarvis Crossroads	4.0 miles	9
Jernigans Crossroads	4.2 miles	9
Mount Olive	4.4 miles	9

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 Finklea	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q71163918	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 1247741. 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.