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.
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.
Kingston Presbyterian Churchlisted 2009 · 0.4 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1943 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1944 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:31680
- 1949 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Kingstree quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
352 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 114 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 100 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 98 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 18 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.5 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 11 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 10 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 August 2013 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 August 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wacca-Dee Materials Company Mine | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| West Mine | Limestone, General | Unknown | Sedimentary | |
| Godwin Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | Sedimentary | |
| Godwin Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
14 since 2000Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Homewood | $15,000 | Outbuildings 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 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Homewood | $15,000 | A mobile home was rolled on top of another one, and a tree was reported down. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Homewood | $500 | Quarter to half dollar size hail was reported in the Homewood Community. |
| March 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Homewood | - | A medium sized tree was reported down in Homewood, South Carolina. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Homewood | - | Tree in roadway on State Route 65. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Homewood | - | 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 2022 | Hail | Homewood | - | Media reported ping-pong sized hail near Conway, SC. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Homewood | - | Public reported 2 inch hail near Homewood, SC along SC-319. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Homewood | - | Horry County EM reported hail in Homewood on US 701. |
| December 2018 | Flood | Homewood | - | Long Avenue at Grier Swamp was closed due to flooding. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Homewood | - | Hail to the size of pennies was reported at the intersection of Highway 501 Business and Country Club Drive. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Homewood | - | A few large trees were down on Bonnie Lane. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Homewood | - | A large oak tree fell onto a house on Greenwich Drive. Damage to the house was minor. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Homewood | - | 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. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Paul Forks | 0.7 miles | 9 | |
| White Oak | 1.3 miles | 9 | |
| Chicora | 1.4 miles | 9 | |
| Cochran Town | 1.4 miles | 9 | |
| Country Club Forest | 1.4 miles | 9 | |
| Darden Terrace | 1.8 miles | 9 | |
| North Conway | 2.1 miles | 9 | |
| Park Hill | 2.4 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 Homewood | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14709512 | 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 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.





