Pages, South Carolina

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Aynor census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29544. It stands on Savannah Creek. The Survey maps it on the Centenary quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Pages within Horry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

1947 USGS Centenary quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Florence quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

155 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 155 fires within 5 miles of Pages (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,468 acres in total. 4 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 burning	47
Arson/incendiarism	47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	46
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Natural	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	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
28 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 August 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
13 August 2002	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Horry 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 Pages (historical): 1 unknown, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Asphalt Products Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown	Sedimentary
	Asphalt Products Pit No. 7	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Red Hill	0.8 miles	8
Galivants Ferry	3.3 miles	9
Rehobeth	3.4 miles	8
Aynor	3.5 miles	8
Dog Bluff	4.5 miles	8
Jonestown	4.6 miles	8
Gideon	4.6 miles	8
Dog Bluff Landing	4.9 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1243880. 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.