Westwood Estates, South Carolina

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Conway East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29579. It stands on Cross Swamp. The Survey maps it on the Myrtle Beach quadrangle.

Westwood Estates within Horry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

1937 USGS Myrtle Beach quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1937 USGS Myrtle Beach quadrangle1:48000
1940 USGS Myrtle Beach quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1949 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Myrtle Beach quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Myrtle Beach quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Myrtle Beach quadrangle1:100000
1994 USGS Myrtle Beach quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

188 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 188 fires within 5 miles of Westwood Estates between 1992 and 2019, burning about 4,760 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 50 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
Arson/incendiarism	50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	49
Debris and open burning	33
Misuse of fire by a minor	32
Recreation and ceremony	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Natural	5
Fireworks	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2013	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	2.8 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2001	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2013	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2018	Recreation and ceremony	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 2001	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Horry County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Westwood Estates: 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
No. 11 Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Socastee Pit	Sand	Unknown	Sedimentary
Waccamaw Mine	Clay	Producer

Every working 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
Cypress Creek	1.2 miles	14
Pinelands	1.2 miles	14
Tarpon Bay	1.4 miles	14
Forestbrook	1.5 miles	14
Villa Woods	1.6 miles	14
Hunter Fields	1.7 miles	14
Pine Island	1.8 miles	14
Brookgate	2.0 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1244020. 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.