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Garden City, South Carolina

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Myrtle Beach census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29576. The Survey maps it on the Brookgreen quadrangle. 10,235 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 20 feet above sea level.

Garden City within Horry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

126 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 126 fires within 5 miles of Garden City between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,206 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 14 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/undetermined80
Debris and open burning19
Arson/incendiarism14
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
8 September 2007Misuse of fire by a minor10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2007Arson/incendiarism30 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 1997Arson/incendiarism20 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Horry County

Storms near this place

26 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garden City in 26 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 8 flash flood, 7 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 waterspout. The reports record 4 injuries. 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 2016LightningGarden City4 hurtLightning injured four people at the Taqueria las Comadres restaurant. Three of them had to be hospitalized.
June 2009LightningGarden City$300,000Lightning struck the Garden City Baptist Church early Sunday morning June 28th, setting it on fire. Half the church was burning, along with part of another building, before the fire fighters arrived. It took five hours to extinguish the blaze, and the church was destroyed. A fireman injured his ankle in the event.
October 2016Flash FloodGarden City$250,000The intersection of Atlantic Avenue and Dogwood Drive was impassable due to flood waters. Adjacent structures were impacted by the flood waters.
September 2000Flash FloodGarden City$25,000Trained spotter reported over a foot of water on Waccamaw Drive. An Horry county spokeswoman reported several homes flooded.
November 2012HailGarden City$3,000Hail to the size of quarters was reported.
July 2022Flash FloodGarden City$2,000Significant flooding was observed at the Inlet Square Mall area to Carolina Dr. and McDowell Shortcut Rd southward to Burgess Rd and highway 17.
November 2012HailGarden City$1,500Hail to the size of quarters was reported on Salters Road near the intersection with Highway 17 Business.
August 2024Flash FloodGarden City-Portions of the Inlet Square Mall parking lot flooded. Water over the curb in spots.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindGarden City-Tree uprooted and leaning on a house in Garden City.
September 2019Flash FloodGarden City-The parking lot of Inlet Square Mall had two feet of water.
May 2018Flash FloodGarden City-There was several feet of water in the Inlet Square Mall Parking lot.
June 2018HailGarden City-Quarter size hail was reported in Garden City.
May 2012HailGarden City-Hail up to penny size was reported on Bluebird Lane. The hail lasted for 3 minutes.
June 2009HailGarden City-Hail to the size of quarters was reported.
June 2008HailGarden City-Penny size hail was reported. Wind gusts to around 30 mph were estimated by the public.
August 2006Heavy RainGarden City-Ernesto moved off the Florida coast at Cape Canaveral on the morning of August 31st, and reached tropical storm strength by late morning while off the Georgia coast. Tropical Storm Ernesto made landfall on the eastern coast of Brunswick County NC near 10:30 pm EST.The South Carolina coast was for the most part spared from tropical storm Ernesto, as the strong winds occurred in North Carolina. Winds did not reach tropical storm strength on the SC coast, with the strongest sustained winds of 35 mph recorded at Myrtle Beach Airport. The main impact in South Carolina was rain, with rainfall totals ranging from just under two inches at Gallivants Ferry, to over seven inches with ponding on roadways at North Myrtle Beach. There were isolated power outages during the storm.
August 2002Heavy RainGarden City-911 reported flooding in Garden City. Numerous roads were also flooded in North Myrtle Beach.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindGarden City-Public reported trees down.
September 2001Storm Surge/TideGarden City-As the center of Tropical Storm Gabrielle passed 200 miles off the coast, gale-force winds and 11 foot seas over the coastal waters combined with high tides to cause coastal flooding in Garden City. The fire department reported that Atlantic and Cypress Avenues were underwater and impassable. Minor flooding due to the rising tides was also reported at Caswell Beach and Oak Island.
February 1998Flash FloodGarden City-Afternoon and evening rains measured 3 to 5 inches within 10 miles of the coast and less than 3 inches inland. Extensive flooding of roads and houses. The Waccamaw river rose from one foot, to 2 feet above flood stage.
August 1998WaterspoutGarden City-Murrells Inlet /Garden City Fire Department sighted six or seven waterspouts developing from showers and thunderstorms off the coast. The waterspouts remained off the coast and caused no damage.
February 1998Storm Surge/TideGarden City-A nor'easter caused heavy surf and 2-3 feet of beach erosion, especially along Cherry Grove Beach.
June 1997WaterspoutGarden City-WATER SPOUT REPORTED BY SHERIFFS DEPUTIES OFF THE COAST FROM GARDEN CITY, MOVING AWAY FROM SHORE
February 1999HailGarden City-no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindGarden City-no account filed
October 1996Flash FloodGarden City-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
Ocean Pines0.3 miles11
Jamestown0.5 miles11
Seabreeze0.6 miles11
Pirate Cove0.7 miles11
Windjammer Village0.8 miles11
Jensens0.9 miles11
Oceanside Village0.9 miles14
Mount Gilead1.3 miles11

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 Garden CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q630253The 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 1867521. 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.