BlockLittle Rock, South Carolina
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Little Rock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29536. It stands on Sweat Swamp. The Survey maps it on the Dillon West quadrangle. 658 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 131 feet above sea level.
On record in Little Rock
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 2 records
James W. Hamer Houselisted 2007
St. Paul's Methodist Churchlisted 1977
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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.
- 1953 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Dillon West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Florence quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
369 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 369 fires within 5 miles of Little Rock between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,450 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 92 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 | 111 |
| Debris and open burning | 92 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 92 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 34 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 17 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 5 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 September 2018 | Other causes | 3.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
14 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Little Rock in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. The reports record 3 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2011 | Tornado (EF1) | Little Rock | 3 hurt, $180,000 | A National Weather Service Storm Survey Team concluded an EF1 tornado touched down in Little Rock, South Carolina. The maximum wind speed was estimated to 105 mph. The path length was one and a half miles and the maximum path width was 440 yards. Several pine trees and a few hardwood trees were snapped. A few large hardwood trees were uprooted. As several of these trees fell, they caused significant damage to many homes near the intersection of Highway 9 and Harllees Bridge Road. There people were admitted to the hospital and later released. |
| October 2016 | Flash Flood | Little Rock | $1,000,000 | Portions of Highway 9 were impassable due to flood waters and the road was closed between Dillon and Little Rock. Adjacent roadways and structures were impacted by the flood waters. The time was estimated. |
| August 2004 | Hail | Little Rock | $8,000 | Hail ranging from nickel to quarter size caused damage to tobacco crops. |
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Little Rock | $1,000 | A tree was reported down near the intersection of Judson Road and Harllees Bridge Road. The time was estimated based on radar data. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Little Rock | - | Hail was reported along Highway 9 southeast of Little Rock. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Little Rock | - | A tree fell onto Interstate 95. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Little Rock | - | Trees were reported down. |
| April 2003 | Hail | Little Rock | - | A trained spotter reported penny size hail. |
| May 2003 | Hail | Little Rock | - | The 911 center reported ping pong ball size hail. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Little Rock | - | Dillon county 911 reported trees down in Little Rock and on Interstate 95 near the Little Pee Dee River Bridge. |
| May 2000 | Hail | Little Rock | - | Trained spotter reported dime-size hail. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Little Rock | - | Trees down. |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Little Rock | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Little Rock | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bunker Hill | 2.0 miles | 7 | |
| Selma | 2.6 miles | 9 | |
| Galavon | 3.0 miles | 7 | |
| Manning Crossroads | 3.0 miles | 7 | |
| Hamer | 3.8 miles | 9 | |
| McCormick Crossroads | 4.2 miles | 7 | |
| Linkside | 4.3 miles | 9 | |
| Five Forks | 4.3 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 Little Rock | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6651744 | 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 1246427. 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.
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.