Seacroft, South Carolina

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Myrtle Beach census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29575. The Survey maps it on the Surfside Beach quadrangle.

Seacroft within Horry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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 Surfside Beach quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Myrtle Beach quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Myrtle Beach quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

138 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Seacroft between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,115 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 15 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	77
Debris and open burning	24
Misuse of fire by a minor	17
Arson/incendiarism	15
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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 2007	Misuse of fire by a minor	10 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 1997	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 August 1997	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 August 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Caropine	0.3 miles	14
Surf Pines	0.5 miles	14
Longleaf	0.7 miles	14
Oceanside Village	1.2 miles	14
Surfside Beach	1.2 miles	14
Garden City	1.4 miles	11
Ocean Pines	1.7 miles	11
Pirate Cove	1.8 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1243955. 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.