Little Town, South Carolina

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.

• 1944 USGS Longs quadrangle1:31680
• 1949 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Longs quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1967 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
• 1974 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Myrtle Beach quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Longs quadrangle1:24000
• 1990 USGS Myrtle Beach quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 178 fires within 5 miles of Little Town between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,418 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 62 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Freemont
• Longs
• Chestnut Crossroads
• Frieds Bay
• Simpson
• Hulls Island

Every fire recorded in Horry County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Little Town in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2017: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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.

Every storm recorded in Horry County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231492. 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.