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Simmonsville, South Carolina

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Waccamaw Neck census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29585. It lies near Butler Island. The Survey maps it on the Waverly Mills quadrangle.

Simmonsville within Georgetown 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

68 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Simmonsville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 511 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined27
Debris and open burning25
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural1
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
28 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 August 2007Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 July 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 June 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Georgetown 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 Simmonsville: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Thorium, Zirconium, Titanium, Iron, Zirconium, Thorium, Titanium. 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
Pawleys IslandIron, Zirconium, Thorium, TitaniumUnknownPlacer , Modern , Beach
Waverly Mills QuadrangleIron, Thorium, Zirconium, TitaniumUnknownPlacer , Modern , Beach

Every working recorded in Georgetown County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Simmonsville in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2016: 1 flood, 1 hail. 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
July 2016HailSimmonsville$1,000A retired NWS Meteorologist reported golf ball size hail on Debordieu Boulevard. The hail lasted for 10 minutes.
August 2012FloodSimmonsville-Heavy rain produced flooding on Kings River Road and Highway 17. The roads were impassable.

Every storm recorded in Georgetown 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
Hagley Estates1.1 miles9
Marysville1.5 miles9
Pawleys Plantation1.5 miles9
Waterford Heights2.1 miles9
Pawleys Woods2.1 miles9
True Blue2.4 miles9
Birds Nest2.5 miles9
Gray Mans Cove2.7 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1226632. 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.

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.