BlockGlen Acres, 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.
On record in Glen Acres
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 9 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Magnolia Cemeterylisted 1994 · 0.5 miles away
Hartsville Armorylisted 1994 · 0.6 miles away
James L. Coker III Houselisted 1991 · 0.8 miles away
Paul H. Rogers Houselisted 1994 · 0.8 miles away
W. E. Cannon House and Storelisted 1991 · 0.8 miles away
Wade Hampton Hicks Houselisted 1994 · 0.9 miles away
Hartsville Passenger Stationlisted 1976 · 1.0 miles away- S. Pressly Coker Houselisted 1994 · 0.7 miles away
- West College Avenue Historic Districtlisted 1994 · 0.9 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1941 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Hartsville South quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Camden quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Camden South quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
445 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 445 fires within 5 miles of Glen Acres between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,396 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 57 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 burning | 159 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 136 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 57 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 33 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 28 |
| Natural | 15 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Other causes | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2019 | Natural | 3.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2009 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pine Acres | 0.7 miles | 14 | |
| South Park | 0.9 miles | 14 | |
| Hartsville | 1.0 miles | 14 | |
| Bladen | 1.3 miles | 14 | |
| West Hartsville | 1.4 miles | 14 | |
| Kingsville Heights | 1.5 miles | 14 | |
| Kalmia Place | 1.5 miles | 14 | |
| Georgia Estates | 1.6 miles | 14 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1241293. 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.