Mallory, South Carolina

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Latta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29565. The Survey maps it on the Bingham quadrangle.

Mallory within Dillon 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.

1943 USGS Gum Swamp quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Bingham quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Florence quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

226 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 226 fires within 5 miles of Mallory between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,643 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 39 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	90
Debris and open burning	45
Arson/incendiarism	39
Equipment and vehicle use	27
Natural	12
Smoking	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Fireworks	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
9 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	50 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dillon County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mallory in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2014: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
January 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Mallory	$1,000	A tree was reported down on Interstate 95 southbound at mile marker 184. The time was estimated based on radar data.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Mallory	$1,000	Several large oak limbs were reported down in a yard along Hawk Run. The time was estimated based on radar data.

Every storm recorded in Dillon 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
Dalcho	1.9 miles	7
Centerville	1.9 miles	7
Oak Grove	3.0 miles	9
Bingham	3.6 miles	9
Dothan	4.3 miles	7
Forrest Hills	4.8 miles	7
Berrys Crossroads	4.9 miles	7
Bass Crossroads	5.6 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1224283. 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.