Minturn, South Carolina

8 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. The Survey maps it on the Minturn quadrangle. It stands 154 feet above sea level.

Minturn within Dillon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1953 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Minturn quadrangle1:24000
1976 USGS Minturn quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Laurinburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

231 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 231 fires within 5 miles of Minturn between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,253 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 78 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
Arson/incendiarism	78
Debris and open burning	55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	54
Equipment and vehicle use	25
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Natural	4
Smoking	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
28 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2012	Natural	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 2018	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 August 1997	Recreation and ceremony	25 acres	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

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Minturn in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2016: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Minturn	$18,000	A very large oak tree with a diameter in excess of 3 feet and pecan trees were reportedly uprooted in the city of Dillon. A railroad crossbuck and gate were bent in the city of Dillon. Multiple trees and power lines were reportedly down across Dillon County. The time was estimated based on radar data.
February 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Minturn	$10,000	Roofing shingles were blown off of two homes near the intersection of Carolina Church Road and Parrish Mill Road. Several trees were also reported down.
April 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Minturn	$8,000	Trees and power lines were reported down near the intersection of Carolina Church Road and Heustess Road. One tree fell onto a car causing minor damage, but no injuries.
May 2014	Hail	Minturn	-	Hail up to the size of nickels was reported on Iris Court. The time was estimated based on radar data.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Minturn	-	Trees were reported down.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Minturn	-	Several pine trees were reported down near the intersection of Weatherly Drive and Legrand Court.

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
Sinclair Crossroads	0.8 miles	8
McCormick Crossroads	1.5 miles	7
Galavon	1.7 miles	7
Judson	2.9 miles	8
Manning Crossroads	3.1 miles	7
Carolina	4.4 miles	8
Little Rock	4.6 miles	7
Bunker Hill	5.4 miles	7

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 Minturn	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22073116	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 1246695. 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.