BlockPoplar Forks, 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 Booth Branch. The Survey maps it on the Adrian quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1943 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1944 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:31680
- 1949 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Kingstree quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
309 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 309 fires within 5 miles of Poplar Forks between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,238 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 81 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 | 111 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 82 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 81 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 11 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 10 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 August 2013 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 August 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 August 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 August 1997 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Poplar Forks in 1 storm report in 2009: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2009 | Hail | Poplar Forks | - | Hail to the size of quarters was reported near the intersection of US-701 and Long Avenue Extension. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cebu (historical) | 0.4 miles | 9 | |
| Allen | 0.9 miles | 9 | |
| Adrian | 1.3 miles | 9 | |
| Maple Crossroads | 1.7 miles | 9 | |
| Booth | 1.8 miles | 9 | |
| Polecat Bay (historical) | 2.5 miles | 9 | |
| Baxter Forks | 2.9 miles | 9 | |
| Privetts | 3.0 miles | 9 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikidata item Q122566208 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231677. 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.
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.