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Pee Dee, South Carolina

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Marion census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29571. It stands on Tobys Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pee Dee quadrangle.

Pee Dee within Marion 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

136 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 136 fires within 5 miles of Pee Dee between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,008 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 27 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/undetermined44
Debris and open burning38
Arson/incendiarism27
Equipment and vehicle use12
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Smoking4
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Recreation and ceremony1
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
17 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 2002Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 August 2007Debris and open burning3.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 August 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 July 2004Naturalunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Pee Dee: 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Pee Dee MineClayUnknownSedimentary
Pee Dee MineClayProducer
Pee Dee PlantClayUnknownSedimentary

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pee Dee in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 1995Thunderstorm WindPee Dee-Winds tossed a mobile home off its foundation and down trees.

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Blue Brick1.6 miles9
Laughlin3.4 miles8
West Marion6.2 miles8
Sellers6.4 miles7
Marion7.6 miles8
Turner Place7.7 miles8
Spring Branch8.1 miles8
Country Club Estates9.1 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1250050. 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.