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Parkersville, South Carolina

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Waccamaw Neck census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29585. The Survey maps it on the Magnolia Beach quadrangle.

Parkersville within Georgetown County

On record in Parkersville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

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.

Fires near this place

46 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Parkersville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 480 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined17
Debris and open burning15
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
20 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 August 2007Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 July 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 June 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 June 2004Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 May 2001Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 May 2001Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth 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 Parkersville: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Thorium, Zirconium, Titanium, Iron, Zirconium, Thorium, Titanium. 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
Pawleys IslandIron, Zirconium, Thorium, TitaniumUnknownPlacer , Modern , Beach
Waverly Mills QuadrangleIron, Thorium, Zirconium, TitaniumUnknownPlacer , Modern , Beach

Every working recorded in Georgetown County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Parkersville in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2014: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2012FloodParkersville$20,000Standing water was reported on Hwy 17 for four to five blocks near Tiller Drive. Four cars were in roadside ditches due to accidents.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindParkersville$2,000Numerous tree limbs were reported down. Some of the limbs were 3 to 4 inches in diameter.
April 2012HailParkersville$1,000Hail a little larger than quarters was reported along Waverly Road.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindParkersville$750A large tree limb was reported down in the Island Shops area. The limb was 8 to 9 feet long and 8 to 10 inches in diameter.

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
Fraserville0.9 miles9
Woodville Acres0.9 miles9
Pawleys Retreat0.9 miles9
Salt Marsh Cove1.4 miles8
Chapel Creek Villas1.4 miles9
Gray Mans Cove1.4 miles9
Pawleys Island1.4 miles8
True Blue1.5 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231633. 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.