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Segars, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the North Hartsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29550. It stands on Segars Mill Stream. The Survey maps it on the Lake Robinson quadrangle.

Segars within Darlington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

607 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 607 fires within 5 miles of Segars between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,993 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 86 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 burning230
Missing data/not specified/undetermined184
Arson/incendiarism86
Misuse of fire by a minor39
Equipment and vehicle use27
Natural17
Smoking10
Recreation and ceremony6
Other causes5
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2007Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2019Natural3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2009Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Darlington County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Segars in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2011: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2011Thunderstorm WindSegars$1,000A tree was reported down along Ruby Road near the Chapel Hill Baptist Church. The time of event was estimated by radar data.
April 2011HailSegars$500Hail up to the size of half dollars was reported covering the ground.
August 2008HailSegars-Hail estimated up to penny size was reported on Oakbend Drive.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindSegars-A tree was reported blown down on Oakbend Drive.

Every storm recorded in Darlington 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
Forest Hills1.1 miles14
New Market1.3 miles15
Botany Woods1.4 miles14
Hollandia Park1.5 miles14
Fox Hollow1.7 miles14
Forest Acres1.7 miles14
West Hartsville1.7 miles14
Pine Ridge1.8 miles15

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 Q122597997The 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 1231788. 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.