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Galivants Ferry, South Carolina

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Aynor census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29544. The Survey maps it on the Galivants Ferry quadrangle. It stands 43 feet above sea level.

Galivants Ferry within Horry County

On record in Galivants Ferry

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 1 record

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

138 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Galivants Ferry between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,134 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 44 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/incendiarism44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined40
Debris and open burning38
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
28 September 1998Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2010Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2019Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2003Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2008Naturalunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 2007Arson/incendiarism3.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Horry 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 Galivants Ferry: 1 unknown, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Asphalt Products PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
Asphalt Products Pit No. 7Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Horry County

Storms near this place

16 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Galivants Ferry in 16 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 11 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail. 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
January 2013Thunderstorm WindGalivants Ferry$3,000Trees were reported down near the intersection of Highway 917 and Marsh Lake Road. The report was relayed by a Meteorologist with WBTW.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindGalivants Ferry$2,000Two trees were reported down on a farm just off of Wolf Pit Bay Rd. The time was estimated based on radar data.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindGalivants Ferry$1,000Several trees down on Pee Dee Hwy near Galivants Ferry.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindGalivants Ferry$1,000There were two large trees blown down in Galivants Ferry.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindGalivants Ferry$1,000A tree was reported down near the intersection of Highway 308 and Page Road.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindGalivants Ferry$1,000A tree was reported down at the intersection of US Highway 501 and Highway 129. The time was estimated based on radar data.
January 1996Thunderstorm WindGalivants Ferry$500no account filed
April 2023Thunderstorm WindGalivants Ferry-Large tree down across the road near Lake Swamp Road and Pee Dee Highway North.
June 2009HailGalivants Ferry-Hail to the size of pennies was reported.
May 2006HailGalivants Ferry-Nickel size hail was reported.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindGalivants Ferry-Horry county electric reported numerous trees down.
May 2001HailGalivants Ferry-Spotter reported dime size hail.
September 1999Thunderstorm WindGalivants Ferry-A tree was downed along Highway U.S. 501 between Galivants Ferry and Aynor.
April 2006HailGalivants Ferry-no account filed
May 1998HailGalivants Ferry-no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindGalivants Ferry-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Polecat Landing2.0 miles9
Cartwheel Landing3.0 miles9
Pages (historical)3.3 miles8
Red Hill4.0 miles8
Aynor4.6 miles8
McQueen Crossroads5.6 miles9
Ketchuptown5.8 miles9
Rehobeth6.3 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.

Wikipedia article on Galivants FerryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5518774The 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 1247861. 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.