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Georgia Estates, South Carolina

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Hartsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29550. The Survey maps it on the Hartsville South quadrangle.

Georgia Estates within Darlington County

On record in Georgia Estates

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

8 surveys from 14 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

475 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 475 fires within 5 miles of Georgia Estates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,601 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 72 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
Debris and open burning174
Missing data/not specified/undetermined136
Arson/incendiarism72
Misuse of fire by a minor40
Equipment and vehicle use24
Natural11
Smoking7
Recreation and ceremony5
Other causes4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
8 September 2007Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2018Debris and open burning20 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2019Natural3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2009Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1998Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Darlington 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
Kalmia Place0.3 miles14
Forest Acres0.7 miles14
West Hartsville0.9 miles14
Pine Acres0.9 miles14
Meadow Oaks1.4 miles14
Forest Hills1.4 miles14
Lakefield Circle1.5 miles14
Glen Acres1.6 miles14

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 Q122554728The 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 1241292. 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.