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Gapway, South Carolina

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Mullins census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29574. It stands on Fowler Branch. The Survey maps it on the Nichols quadrangle.

Gapway within Marion County

On record in Gapway

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

117 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Gapway between 1992 and 2019, burning about 640 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 28 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/undetermined35
Debris and open burning33
Arson/incendiarism28
Equipment and vehicle use8
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1

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
22 September 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2019Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1999Debris and open burning24 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2001Natural2.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2002Debris and open burning14 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2016Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion 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 Gapway: 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
Snipes MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
Snipes MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gapway in 1 storm report in 2016: 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
October 2016Flash FloodGapway$200,000Significant flooding was reported along Highway 917, near the Horry County line. Adjacent roadways and structures were impacted by the flood waters.

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Koonce2.8 miles11
Stave Landing3.2 miles8
Mullins3.3 miles11
Pendeboro3.9 miles11
North Mullins4.1 miles11
Cartwheel Landing5.1 miles8
Rains5.5 miles8
Ariel Cross Road6.4 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 Q122566782The 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 1227906. 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.