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Nixonville, South Carolina

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Conway East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29526. It stands on Cane Bay. The Survey maps it on the Nixonville quadrangle.

Nixonville within Horry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 11 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

145 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 145 fires within 5 miles of Nixonville between 1992 and 2018, burning about 22,756 acres in total. 3 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
Debris and open burning53
Arson/incendiarism39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Natural3
Smoking2
Fireworks1

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
25 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 2016Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 July 2011Fireworks1,155 acresSouth Carolina Forestry CommissionHORNET FIRE
28 July 2005Natural12 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Horry County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Nixonville: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Pit No. 3 Route 90SandUnknownSedimentary

Every working recorded in Horry County

Storms near this place

6 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nixonville in 6 storm reports between 2004 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 hail, 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
July 2023LightningNixonville$5,000,000Lightning caused a house fire on Long Left Pine Drive in Conway, SC.
October 2017Tornado (EF1)Nixonville$25,000A storm survey conducted by the National Weather Service confirmed an EF-1 tornado touched down near the intersection of Old Reaves Ferry Rd. and Inman Cir. and tracked to the northeast. Considerable tree damage was observed between Inman Cir. and the Waccamaw River. The team observed numerous trees, up to 16 inches in diameter, snapped and many large limbs were also broken out of the tree tops. On the east side of Inman Cir., a window was blown out of a garage and the garage door buckled slightly. Winds were estimated to 95 mph. The tornado had a path length of just over a third of a mile and a maximum path width of 75 yards. The tornado was on the ground for less than 2 minutes.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindNixonville-Multiple trees down/snapped in the Walden Preserve and Heritage Preserve complexes off of Hwy 90.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindNixonville-Tweet from the public confirmed trees down near the intersection of Old Reaves Ferry road and Bear Bluff road.
July 2023HailNixonville-Dime to penny size hail reported in the Nixonsville area of Horry county.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindNixonville-Tree down on Hwy 90.

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
Grahamville1.6 miles11
Vina3.3 miles11
Dogwood Neck (historical)3.8 miles12
Hand4.4 miles12
Shell4.9 miles11
Hammond5.2 miles11
Red Bluff Crossroads5.4 miles11
Hickory Grove5.5 miles11

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.

Wikidata item Q122561189The 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 1231594. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.