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Galavon, South Carolina

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Little Rock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29536. The Survey maps it on the Dillon West quadrangle.

Galavon within Dillon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

297 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 297 fires within 5 miles of Galavon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,425 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 95 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
Arson/incendiarism95
Debris and open burning73
Missing data/not specified/undetermined73
Equipment and vehicle use33
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Natural4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking2
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
9 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2018Other causes3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2009Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dillon County

Storms near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Galavon in 1 storm report in 2010: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2010Thunderstorm WindGalavon$3,500One large tree fell onto power lines. The tree and power lines fell across the roadway, blocking Judson Road. The time was estimated based on radar data.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
McCormick Crossroads1.4 miles7
Manning Crossroads1.7 miles7
Minturn1.7 miles8
Sinclair Crossroads2.2 miles8
Little Rock3.0 miles7
Bunker Hill3.7 miles7
Judson4.3 miles8
Carolina5.4 miles8

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 Q122560748The 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 1227904. 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.

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.