BlockWampee, South Carolina
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Little River census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29568. It sits by Star Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Wampee quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1943 USGS Wampee quadrangle1:24000
- 1949 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Myrtle Beach quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Myrtle Beach quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Wampee quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
171 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 171 fires within 5 miles of Wampee between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,247 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 41 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 | 63 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 41 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 9 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| 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 | 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:
Storms near this place
7 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wampee in 7 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1999 | Lightning | Wampee | 1 hurt | A 22 year old man was struck by lightning and spent the night in the hospital before being released. Lightning also damaged a home in Juniper Bay, 7 miles west of Conway. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Wampee | $20,000 | Hail to the size of tennis balls tore the gutters off a house and damaged a car along Duke Road. |
| August 2024 | Flash Flood | Wampee | $5,000 | SC Highway Patrol reports road washout on Star Bluff Rd (north of Highway 90). |
| May 2011 | Hail | Wampee | $2,000 | Hail to the size of ping pong balls was reported on Highway 90 near the intersection with Highway 31. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wampee | $1,000 | A tree was reported down on Highway 57 near North Myrtle Beach Elementary. The time was estimated based on radar data. |
| March 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wampee | - | A skywarn spotter measured a wind gust to 84 mph. |
| August 2000 | Hail | Wampee | - | Law Enforcement reported baseball size hail. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Star Bluff Crossroads | 1.3 miles | 12 | |
| Stephens Crossroads | 3.0 miles | 10 | |
| Forest Lake | 3.1 miles | 8 | |
| Belle Park | 3.4 miles | 8 | |
| Golf View Plantation | 3.5 miles | 8 | |
| Pinewood Acres | 3.5 miles | 8 | |
| Village at Bay Tree | 3.8 miles | 8 | |
| Timber Ridge | 3.8 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.
| Wikipedia article on Wampee | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7966949 | 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 1227391. 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.