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Whittemore Park, South Carolina

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Conway census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29527. It stands on Bear Swamp. The Survey maps it on the Conway quadrangle.

Whittemore Park within Horry County

On record in Whittemore Park

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

5 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

339 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 339 fires within 5 miles of Whittemore Park between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,235 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 102 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/incendiarism102
Debris and open burning96
Missing data/not specified/undetermined90
Misuse of fire by a minor24
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural7
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1

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
29 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1998Arson/incendiarism11 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2013Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2006Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Horry County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Whittemore Park: 3 producers, 3 unknowns, 3 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Limestone, Dimension, Stone. 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
Bird QuarryStoneProducer
Wacca Dee MineLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Wacca-Dee Materials Company MineStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Alice MineLimestone, GeneralUnknownSedimentary
Alice MineLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Godwin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
Godwin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Plant Number 9Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
West MineLimestone, GeneralUnknownSedimentary

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Huckabee Heights0.4 miles9
Buckwood0.6 miles9
Greenbriar0.6 miles9
Pinewood0.9 miles9
Quattlebaum Acres0.9 miles9
Conway1.0 miles9
Park Hill1.1 miles9
Longwood1.5 miles9

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 Q122563847The 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 1244024. 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.