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Pinewood, South Carolina

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Conway census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29526. It stands on Kingston Lake. The Survey maps it on the Conway quadrangle.

Pinewood within Horry County

On record in Pinewood

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 11 records

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 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

340 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 340 fires within 5 miles of Pinewood between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,245 acres in total. 6 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 burning104
Missing data/not specified/undetermined97
Arson/incendiarism93
Misuse of fire by a minor25
Natural6
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1

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
29 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1998Arson/incendiarism11 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2013Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2016Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2006Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Horry County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Pinewood: 3 producers, 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
Bird QuarryStoneProducer
Wacca-Dee Materials Company MineStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
West MineLimestone, GeneralUnknownSedimentary
Godwin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
Godwin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Plant Number 9Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Park Hill0.3 miles9
Buckwood0.3 miles9
Greenbriar0.4 miles9
North Conway0.6 miles9
Whittemore Park0.9 miles9
Conway0.9 miles9
Darden Terrace1.0 miles9
Huckabee Heights1.3 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1243901. 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.