Ketchuptown, South Carolina

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Floyds Crossroads census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29581. It stands on Reedy Branch. The Survey maps it on the Galivants Ferry quadrangle.

Ketchuptown within Horry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1948 USGS Galivants Ferry quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Galivants Ferry quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Florence quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

138 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Ketchuptown between 1992 and 2019, burning about 868 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 50 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
Arson/incendiarism	50
Debris and open burning	44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	34
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Natural	2

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
7 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2002	Arson/incendiarism	25 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2016	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	3.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 1997	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not 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 Ketchuptown: 3 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Black Creek Mine	Sand	Unknown	Sedimentary
Black Creek Mine	Sand	Unknown	Sedimentary
Snipes Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown	Sedimentary
Snipes Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working 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
McQueen Crossroads	2.0 miles	9
Cartwheel Landing	4.5 miles	9
Pleasant View	4.8 miles	8
Polecat Landing	5.1 miles	9
Pitch Landing	5.4 miles	8
Galivants Ferry	5.8 miles	9
Lewisville (historical)	6.6 miles	8
Mount Olive	7.2 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1223723. 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.