Goretown, South Carolina

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Loris census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29569. The Survey maps it on the Goretown quadrangle.

Goretown within Horry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

1953 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Goretown quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Tabor City quadrangle1:62500
1986 USGS Whiteville quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Whiteville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

290 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 290 fires within 5 miles of Goretown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,159 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 65 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	108
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	101
Arson/incendiarism	65
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Natural	3
Smoking	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
24 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2002	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.6 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 2016	Debris and open burning	1.9 acres	North Carolina Forest Service	SANDY PLAINS CHURCH RD.
15 August 2002	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Horry County

Storms near this place

6 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goretown in 6 storm reports between 2009 and 2019: 5 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Goretown	$4,000	Trees were reportedly down near the intersection of Goretown Loop and East Highway Business 9. The time was estimated based on radar data.
May 2014	Hail	Goretown	$200	Quarter size hail was reported along Highway 9.
May 2019	Hail	Goretown	-	Quarter size hail was reported on Hwy 915 in Loris. Hail also reported at the intersection of Heritage Rd and Red Bluff Rd.
May 2019	Hail	Goretown	-	Quarter size hail was reported along Hwy 915.
May 2009	Hail	Goretown	-	Hail a little bigger than quarters was reported along Goretown Loop.
May 2009	Hail	Goretown	-	Hail a little bigger than quarters was reported along Goretown Loop.

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Grahams Crossroads	0.8 miles	9
Hulls Island	1.7 miles	9
Frieds Bay	2.7 miles	9
Simpson	2.8 miles	11
Long Point	3.1 miles	9
Daisy	3.3 miles	11
Loris	4.2 miles	9
Glenn	4.4 miles	9

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 Goretown	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65082708	The 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 1231333. 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.