Pine Grove, South Carolina

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Danwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29541. The Survey maps it on the Florence West quadrangle.

Pine Grove within Florence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1940 USGS Florence West quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1945 USGS Florence West quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Florence quadrangle1:100000
1986 USGS Florence West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

561 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 561 fires within 5 miles of Pine Grove between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,820 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 120 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	183
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	159
Arson/incendiarism	120
Misuse of fire by a minor	62
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Smoking	8
Natural	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Other causes	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
9 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2007	Misuse of fire by a minor	10 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2010	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Smoking	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1997	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Florence 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
Ashwood Estates	0.4 miles	11
Muldrows Mill	0.6 miles	11
Bannockburn	0.8 miles	11
South Side	0.8 miles	11
Howe	0.8 miles	11
Deerfield	1.0 miles	11
Tara Village	1.1 miles	11
Tara Hills	1.2 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1242128. 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.