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Rheuark Landing, South Carolina

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Conway East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29588. The Survey maps it on the Bucksville quadrangle.

Rheuark Landing 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

200 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 200 fires within 5 miles of Rheuark Landing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,628 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 45 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 burning55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined54
Arson/incendiarism45
Misuse of fire by a minor22
Equipment and vehicle use11
Recreation and ceremony7
Natural5
Smoking1

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
27 September 2007Arson/incendiarism2.8 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2001Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2018Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 1999Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 1997Debris and open burning5.0 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

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Rheuark Landing: 3 producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand. 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
Socastee PitSandUnknownSedimentary
Asphalt Products PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
No. 11 MineSand 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
Bucksville1.4 miles9
Keys Field1.6 miles9
Peachtree Landing2.5 miles9
Toddville2.6 miles9
Burning Ridge3.4 miles9
Coopers3.5 miles9
Socastee4.0 miles14
Rosewood4.0 miles14

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 Q122597193The 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 1231719. 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.