Five Forks, South Carolina

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Hamer census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29547. The Survey maps it on the Dillon East quadrangle.

Five Forks within Dillon County

On record in Five Forks

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 1 record

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

Hamer Halllisted 1975 · 0.6 miles away

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.

1953 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Dillon East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1976 USGS Dillon East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Florence quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

341 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 341 fires within 5 miles of Five Forks between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,075 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 87 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	104
Arson/incendiarism	87
Debris and open burning	81
Misuse of fire by a minor	24
Equipment and vehicle use	24
Smoking	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Natural	4
Fireworks	3
Other causes	2
Recreation and ceremony	2

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 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2018	Other causes	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dillon 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
Hamer	0.5 miles	9
Linkside	1.3 miles	9
Kentyre	1.8 miles	9
Cotton Valley	1.9 miles	9
Bronson Crossroads	2.0 miles	9
Carmichael Crossroads	2.1 miles	9
Mount Calvary	3.3 miles	9
Selma	3.7 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1227898. 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.