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Port Harrelson, 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 29527. It stands on Cowford Swamp. The Survey maps it on the Bucksville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Port Harrelson within Horry County

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

112 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Port Harrelson (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 855 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 25 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 burning44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Arson/incendiarism25
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
3 September 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2007Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 July 2002Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 July 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Klondike0.8 miles9
Bucksport1.4 miles9
Eddy Lake (historical)2.1 miles9
Enterprise Landing3.2 miles9
Peachtree Landing3.9 miles9
Bucksville4.0 miles9
Gilbert Crossroads4.0 miles10
Keys Field5.1 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1243919. 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.