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Oak Grove, South Carolina

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Andrews census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29440. It stands on Britt Branch. The Survey maps it on the Olin quadrangle.

Oak Grove within Georgetown County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

385 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 385 fires within 5 miles of Oak Grove between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,887 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 93 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 burning135
Missing data/not specified/undetermined117
Arson/incendiarism93
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use8
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Fireworks2
Smoking1
Other causes1

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 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2001Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Georgetown County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Oak Grove: 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Iron. 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
Kennedy PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Olin QuadrangleTitanium, IronUnknownPlacer , Modern , Beach

Every working recorded in Georgetown County

Storms near this place

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oak Grove in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2016: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
October 2015Flash FloodOak Grove$20,000Saint Delights Road was reportedly closed due to flooding.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindOak Grove$1,000A tree was reportedly down on Kent Road.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindOak Grove$1,000Power lines were reported down on Kent Road.

Every storm recorded in Georgetown 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
Sampit1.5 miles8
Cumberland2.1 miles8
New Hope2.5 miles8
Spring Gully2.7 miles9
Olin2.7 miles9
Kent3.2 miles9
Lodge Hall3.7 miles8
Bethel4.1 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1225095. 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.