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Spring Gully, South Carolina

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Andrews census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29440. It stands on Boggy Swamp. The Survey maps it on the Olin quadrangle.

Spring Gully within Georgetown County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

332 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 332 fires within 5 miles of Spring Gully between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,588 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 66 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 burning115
Missing data/not specified/undetermined108
Arson/incendiarism66
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Natural8
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking2
Fireworks2
Other causes1

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 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 1999Arson/incendiarism20 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 August 1999Debris and open burningunder 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

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Spring Gully: 3 unknowns, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Iron. 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
Olin QuadrangleTitanium, IronUnknownPlacer , Modern , Beach
Georgetown PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
Georgetown PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kennedy PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Meurisena Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary

Every working recorded in Georgetown County

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spring Gully in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2024: 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
September 2015Thunderstorm WindSpring Gully$1,000A tree was reported down on U.S. 521. The time was estimated based on radar data.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindSpring Gully-Railroad crossing gates damaged by winds near 9 mile curve on Georgetown Highway.

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
Cumberland2.2 miles8
Graves2.2 miles9
Oak Grove2.7 miles9
Sampit3.1 miles8
Moyd3.8 miles10
Olin3.9 miles9
New Hope4.1 miles8
Foster Corner4.7 miles8

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.

Wikipedia article on Spring GullyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q30681624The 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 1231819. 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.