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Klondike, 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 29527. The Survey maps it on the Bucksville quadrangle.

Klondike 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.

Fires near this place

119 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Klondike between 1992 and 2020, burning about 862 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 27 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 burning46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Arson/incendiarism27
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
3 September 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2007Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 August 2007Debris and open burning4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 July 2002Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 July 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth 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

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Klondike: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Asphalt Products PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Horry County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Klondike in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2019: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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 2019LightningKlondike$150,000Lightning struck a home in Bucksport, causing a two alarm fire.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindKlondike$3,000Several trees, up to 4 inches in diameter, were reported snapped.
April 2017HailKlondike$500Quarter size hail was reported.
July 2011HailKlondike$500Hail to the size of quarters was reported. The hail lasted for 5 minutes.

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
Port Harrelson (historical)0.8 miles9
Bucksport2.0 miles9
Eddy Lake (historical)2.8 miles9
Enterprise Landing3.4 miles9
Bucksville3.5 miles9
Gilbert Crossroads3.5 miles10
Peachtree Landing3.7 miles9
Keys Field4.5 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1246264. 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.