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Grover, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Reevesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29477. The Survey maps it on the Canadys quadrangle. 297 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 82 feet above sea level.

Grover within Dorchester County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 18 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

391 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 391 fires within 5 miles of Grover between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,381 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 63 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 burning169
Missing data/not specified/undetermined127
Arson/incendiarism63
Equipment and vehicle use13
Smoking5
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes2
Fireworks1

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
9 September 1997Arson/incendiarism2.1 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2012Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2009Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dorchester 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 Grover: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Janet PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Dorchester County

Storms near this place

28 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grover in 28 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 24 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2012Thunderstorm WindGrover$3,000Power lines down on 2nd Texas Road.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindGrover$1,500Trees were reported down on Second Texas Road.
January 2014Thunderstorm WindGrover$1,000SC Highway Patrol reported a tree down on Interstate 95 North, near mile marker 74.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindGrover$1,000A tree was reported down and blocking Quaker Road in Grover, South Carolina.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindGrover$500South Carolina Department of Transportation reported a tree down on Quaker Road between Wire Road and Westbury Road.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindGrover$500Law enforcement reported a tree down at the intersection of Stokes Bridge Road and Wire Road, 4 miles east-southeast of Grover, South Carolina.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindGrover-Dorchester County Emergency Management reported that two trees fell across Seven Acres Road near Highway 15. Two trucks then hit the downed trees, causing one injury.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindGrover-Dorchester County Emergency Management reported one tree down near the intersection of Wire Road and Murray Cemetary Road.
May 2025HailGrover-Dorchester County Emergency Management reported penny sized hail near Seven Acres Road and Highway 15.
January 2024Thunderstorm WindGrover-Dorchester County Emergency Management reported a tree down along the 3300 block of Wire Road.
January 2024Thunderstorm WindGrover-Dorchester County Emergency Management reported a tree down near the intersection of Overhill Drive and Old Bell Road.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindGrover-Dorchester County dispatch reported one tree down at the intersection of Second Texas Road and Gum Branch Road.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindGrover-Dorchester County dispatch reported one tree down on Westbury Road.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindGrover-The Dorchester County Warning Point reported a tree down at the 1800 Block of Highway 15 South.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindGrover-The South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down on Interstate 95 near mile marker 73 north bound.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindGrover-A county official reported a tree down near the intersection of Second Texas Street and Alonzo Road.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindGrover-Dorchester County dispatch reported a tree down near Westburry Road and Wire Road.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindGrover-The Dorchester County 911 Call Center reported a tree down near the intersection of Wire Road and Second Texas Road.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindGrover-The public reported multiple trees down near Appleby Church along Wire Road.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindGrover-A NWS storm survey team found 20 full size oak trees down due to straight line winds, 12 of which were fully uprooted, near the intersection of Gum Branch Road and Second Texas Road.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindGrover-The public reported a greenhouse and several large bird houses destroyed on Woodberry's Lane.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindGrover-South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down on Wire Road.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindGrover-The South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down on Highway 15 near Wire Road.
May 2017Tornado (EF1)Grover-A National Weather Service storm survey team confirmed that an EF1 tornado that touched down near Canadys in Colleton County crossed the Edisto River and continued into Dorchester County. The tornado snapped off, uprooted and damaged trees on the Dorchester County side of the Edisto River before dissipating near Utsey Hill Road.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindGrover-Dorchester County dispatch reported a tree down at the intersection of Seven Acres Road and Cypress Grove Lane.
February 2003Thunderstorm WindGrover-Several trees and large limbs were down.
April 2006HailGrover-no account filed
May 1997HailGrover-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dorchester 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
Texas2.9 miles18
Cow Tail (historical)3.3 miles18
Old Saint George4.7 miles18
Saint George5.7 miles18
Cat Hole5.9 miles18
Byrd6.0 miles18
Badham6.3 miles18
Hudsontown7.0 miles18

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 GroverAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16739927The 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 1222923. 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.