Jensens, South Carolina

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Myrtle Beach census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29576. The Survey maps it on the Brookgreen quadrangle.

Jensens within Horry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1943 USGS Brookgreen quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
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

127 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 127 fires within 5 miles of Jensens between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,251 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 14 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	81
Debris and open burning	19
Arson/incendiarism	14
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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	Misuse of fire by a minor	10 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 1997	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 August 1997	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Seabreeze	0.5 miles	11
Ocean Pines	0.7 miles	11
Windjammer Village	0.7 miles	11
Jamestown	0.9 miles	11
Garden City	0.9 miles	11
Mount Gilead	1.0 miles	11
Thompson (historical)	1.0 miles	11
Pirate Cove	1.3 miles	11

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.

Wikidata item Q122553777

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 1243792. 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.