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West Hartsville, South Carolina

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

West Hartsville within Darlington County

On record in West Hartsville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

514 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 514 fires within 5 miles of West Hartsville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,753 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 74 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 burning190
Missing data/not specified/undetermined153
Arson/incendiarism74
Misuse of fire by a minor39
Equipment and vehicle use28
Natural12
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony5
Other causes5
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2018Debris and open burning20 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2019Natural3.0 acresSouth 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
27 September 1998Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1998Debris and open burningunder 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

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Hartsville in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2018: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 2018Flash FloodWest Hartsville$10,000Heavy rain produced flooding on 5th Street from Pinewood Ave to Sunoco Rd. Flooding also occurred on Patrick Hwy.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindWest Hartsville$1,000A large tree was reported down along Wright Street. The time was estimated based on radar data.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindWest Hartsville-A large pine tree was reported down on Cherokee Street.

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 Acres0.6 miles14
Kalmia Place0.6 miles14
Georgia Estates0.9 miles14
Pine Acres0.9 miles14
Forest Hills1.0 miles14
Glen Acres1.4 miles14
Prestwood Village1.6 miles14
Botany Woods1.7 miles14

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 Q122550687The 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 1227492. 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.