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Homewood, South Carolina

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Conway census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29526. It stands on Saint Paul Branch. The Survey maps it on the Adrian quadrangle. 1,693 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 26 feet above sea level.

Homewood within Horry County

On record in Homewood

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

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.

Fires near this place

352 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 352 fires within 5 miles of Homewood between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,054 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 100 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 burning114
Arson/incendiarism100
Missing data/not specified/undetermined98
Misuse of fire by a minor18
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural7
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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 1997Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2001Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1998Arson/incendiarism11 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2016Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2013Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Horry County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Homewood: 2 unknowns, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
Wacca-Dee Materials Company MineStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
West MineLimestone, GeneralUnknownSedimentary
Godwin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
Godwin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Horry County

Storms near this place

14 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Homewood in 14 storm reports between 2000 and 2026: 8 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 flood. 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
October 2017Thunderstorm WindHomewood$15,000Outbuildings were reportedly damaged. Large tree limbs were snapped. Metal roofing was wrapped around trees. A commercial sign was blown down. The wind blew the sign to the northeast. The sign hit a nearby home, but reportedly caused no damage. The damage occurred near the intersection of U.S. 701 and Wise Rd.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindHomewood$15,000A mobile home was rolled on top of another one, and a tree was reported down.
May 2012HailHomewood$500Quarter to half dollar size hail was reported in the Homewood Community.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindHomewood-A medium sized tree was reported down in Homewood, South Carolina.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindHomewood-Tree in roadway on State Route 65.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindHomewood-Multiple large limbs were reported down near the Homewood, SC area. Some were making contact with electrical wires. Horry County Electric Cooperative reports over 200 power outages in the area.
April 2022HailHomewood-Media reported ping-pong sized hail near Conway, SC.
April 2022HailHomewood-Public reported 2 inch hail near Homewood, SC along SC-319.
April 2022HailHomewood-Horry County EM reported hail in Homewood on US 701.
December 2018FloodHomewood-Long Avenue at Grier Swamp was closed due to flooding.
June 2015HailHomewood-Hail to the size of pennies was reported at the intersection of Highway 501 Business and Country Club Drive.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindHomewood-A few large trees were down on Bonnie Lane.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindHomewood-A large oak tree fell onto a house on Greenwich Drive. Damage to the house was minor.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindHomewood-Several trees were down across Long Road, near the Homewood Elementary School. The report was called into the Horry County 911 Center and then relayed via SKYWARN.

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Saint Paul Forks0.7 miles9
White Oak1.3 miles9
Chicora1.4 miles9
Cochran Town1.4 miles9
Country Club Forest1.4 miles9
Darden Terrace1.8 miles9
North Conway2.1 miles9
Park Hill2.4 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.

Wikipedia article on HomewoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14709512The 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 1246034. 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.