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Georgieville, South Carolina

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Waccamaw Neck census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29585. The Survey maps it on the Magnolia Beach quadrangle.

Georgieville within Georgetown County

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

42 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Georgieville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 429 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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/undetermined20
Debris and open burning12
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
20 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 June 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 June 2001Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 June 2004Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 May 2001Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 May 2001Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Georgetown County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Georgieville: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Zirconium, Thorium, Titanium. 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
Pawleys IslandIron, Zirconium, Thorium, TitaniumUnknownPlacer , Modern , Beach

Every working recorded in Georgetown County

Storms near this place

2 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Georgieville in 2 storm reports between 2000 and 2008: 1 tornado, 1 lightning. 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
July 2008LightningGeorgieville$10,000Lightning sparked a fire that caused minor damage to a two story building.
July 2000Tornado (F0)Georgieville$2,000Waterspout came ashore two miles southwest of Litchfield Beach, striking the Litchfield Inn (no damage reported) and shattering the windows of several automobiles.

Every storm recorded in Georgetown 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
North Litchfield Beach0.4 miles8
Litchfield Retreat0.6 miles8
Litchfield by the Sea1.3 miles8
Litchfield Beach1.9 miles8
Salt Marsh Cove1.9 miles8
Huntington Marsh2.5 miles11
Inlet Oaks Village2.7 miles11
Mount Rena2.8 miles9

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 Q122545640The 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 1222680. 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.