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Withers Heights, South Carolina

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Myrtle Beach census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29577. The Survey maps it on the Myrtle Beach quadrangle.

Withers Heights within Horry County

On record in Withers Heights

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

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.

Fires near this place

85 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Withers Heights between 1992 and 2019, burning about 298 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 21 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Arson/incendiarism21
Debris and open burning13
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2007Arson/incendiarism2.8 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2001Debris and open burning1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Withers Heights: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
No. 11 MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Waccamaw MineClayProducer

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
Yaupon Circle0.3 miles14
Seaview Place0.5 miles14
Scott Acres0.7 miles14
Dogwood0.8 miles14
Hurl Rocks0.9 miles14
Owens1.0 miles14
Myrtle Beach1.0 miles14
Myrtle Ridge1.2 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 Q122571310The 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 1244026. 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.