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Longs, South Carolina

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Longs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29568. The Survey maps it on the Longs quadrangle. It stands 33 feet above sea level.

Longs within Horry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 10 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

178 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 178 fires within 5 miles of Longs between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,258 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 47 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 burning63
Missing data/not specified/undetermined49
Arson/incendiarism47
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural3
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 September 2007Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2009Debris and open burning1.2 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2002Debris and open burning4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1998Debris and open burning30 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 August 2002Debris and open burning4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined178 acresSouth Carolina Forestry CommissionBAYS HUNT CLUB

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Horry County

Storms near this place

23 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Longs in 23 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 12 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 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
August 2010LightningLongs$10,000Lightning struck the roof of a home in the community of Long Bay, knocking out a one square foot section of the roof.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindLongs$2,000Trees were blown down off of Hwy 905. A trampoline was damaged.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindLongs$1,000A tree was reported down along Highway 9 westbound.
May 2011HailLongs$1,000Hail to the size of quarters was reported.
May 2011HailLongs$1,000Hail to the size of quarters was reported.
May 2011HailLongs$1,000Hail a little larger than quarters was reported.
July 2015HailLongs$500Hail to the size of quarters was reported at the intersection of Highway 9 and Highway 905.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindLongs-Some trees and fences blown down in the Canvas Back Dr. area. A NWS survey confirmed that this event was from thunderstorm wind gusts.
October 2015Heavy RainLongs-A co-op observer in the town of Longs reported 14.93 of rainfall in approximately the last 30 hours.
October 2015Heavy RainLongs-A two day total rainfall was measured at 21.14.
September 2011HailLongs-A brief period of hail to the size of nickels was reported near the intersection of Highway 9 and 905.
June 2008HailLongs-Hail was estimated to penny size.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindLongs-The wind speed was estimated to 60 mph by the public.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindLongs-Trees down on West Dogwood Road.
June 2006HailLongs-Quarter size hail fell at the fire station.
March 2005Thunderstorm WindLongs-A utility company reported several trees and power lines down.
May 2003HailLongs-Trained spotter reported half dollar size hail.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindLongs-Horry Electric reported trees down across power lines.
June 2001HailLongs-Longs fire department reported quarter size hail.
April 2006HailLongs-no account filed
April 2006HailLongs-no account filed
August 2000HailLongs-no account filed
March 1996Thunderstorm WindLongs-no account filed

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
Freemont0.7 miles10
Little Town1.5 miles10
Chestnut Crossroads1.9 miles11
Worthams Ferry3.5 miles10
Stephens Crossroads4.4 miles10
Brooksville4.5 miles10
Wampee5.4 miles8
Star Bluff Crossroads5.8 miles12

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 LongsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6674263The 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 1246465. 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.