Star Bluff Crossroads, South Carolina

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Conway East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29568. It sits by Star Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Hand quadrangle.

Star Bluff Crossroads within Horry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 12 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 Nixonville quadrangle1:62500
1937 USGS Nixonville quadrangle1:48000
1942 USGS Nixonville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1949 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Hand quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Myrtle Beach quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Myrtle Beach quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

174 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 174 fires within 5 miles of Star Bluff Crossroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,314 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 42 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 burning	66
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	52
Arson/incendiarism	42
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
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 2007	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2009	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1998	Debris and open burning	30 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 July 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 July 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	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
Wampee	1.3 miles	8
Hand	2.6 miles	12
Dogwood Neck (historical)	3.3 miles	12
Pinewood Acres	3.8 miles	8
Timber Ridge	3.9 miles	8
Forest Lake	4.0 miles	8
Skimmer Bay	4.1 miles	12
Belle Park	4.2 miles	8

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 Q122571701

The 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 1226867. 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.