Scott Acres, South Carolina

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Myrtle Beach census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29577. The Survey maps it on the Myrtle Beach quadrangle.

Scott Acres within Horry County

On record in Scott Acres

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 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Pleasant Innlisted 1996 · 0.6 miles away
Waikiki Village Motellisted 2017 · 0.9 miles away
Rainbow Courtlisted 1996 · 1.0 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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.

1937 USGS Myrtle Beach quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1937 USGS Myrtle Beach quadrangle1:48000
1940 USGS Myrtle Beach quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1949 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Myrtle Beach quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Myrtle Beach quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Myrtle Beach quadrangle1:100000
1994 USGS Myrtle Beach quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

99 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Scott Acres between 1992 and 2019, burning about 497 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 23 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35
Arson/incendiarism	23
Misuse of fire by a minor	17
Debris and open burning	13
Recreation and ceremony	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Fireworks	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
8 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	2.8 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 2001	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 2015	Misuse of fire by a minor	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Horry County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Scott Acres: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	No. 11 Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Waccamaw Mine	Clay	Producer

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Dogwood	0.2 miles	14
Owens	0.3 miles	14
Myrtle Ridge	0.6 miles	14
Yaupon Circle	0.6 miles	14
Withers Heights	0.7 miles	14
Ramsey Acres	0.9 miles	14
Myrtle Beach	0.9 miles	14
Seaview Place	1.0 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1243952. 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.