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Fraserville, South Carolina

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Waccamaw Neck census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29585. It lies near Pawleys Island. The Survey maps it on the Waverly Mills quadrangle.

Fraserville 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

45 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Fraserville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 476 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined18
Debris and open burning15
Arson/incendiarism8
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
20 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 August 2007Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 July 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 June 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 June 2004Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 May 2001Debris and open burning2.0 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 Fraserville: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Thorium, Zirconium, Titanium, Iron, Zirconium, Thorium, Titanium. 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
Pawleys IslandIron, Zirconium, Thorium, TitaniumUnknownPlacer , Modern , Beach
Waverly Mills QuadrangleIron, Thorium, Zirconium, TitaniumUnknownPlacer , Modern , Beach

Every working recorded in Georgetown County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fraserville in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
June 2024Thunderstorm WindFraserville$150,000Several trees were down along with power outages. Brookgreen Gardens reported $150,000 in damages.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindFraserville$1,000Power lines were reportedly toppled in Pawleys Island.
September 2022Flash FloodFraserville-Deep water flooded portions of Highway 17 in the Pawleys Island area.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindFraserville-A wind gust to 60 mph brought down some large tree limbs.
July 2008HailFraserville-Hail up to the size of golf balls covered the ground. The hail fell for 20 minutes.

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
Gray Mans Cove0.6 miles9
Pawleys Island0.8 miles8
Parkersville0.9 miles8
True Blue1.0 miles9
Pawleys Retreat1.1 miles9
Pawleys Woods1.3 miles9
Woodville Acres1.4 miles9
Marysville1.5 miles9

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 Q122554321The 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 1222543. 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.