Woodcreek, South Carolina

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Darlington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29532. It stands on Bellyache Creek. The Survey maps it on the Darlington East quadrangle.

Woodcreek within Darlington County

On record in Woodcreek

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 2 records

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

Clarence McCall Houselisted 1988 · 0.9 miles away
Darlington Industrial Historic Districtlisted 1988 · 1.0 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1953 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Darlington East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Florence quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

304 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 304 fires within 5 miles of Woodcreek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,073 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 27 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	151
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	93
Arson/incendiarism	27
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	11
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Natural	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
6 September 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2011	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2003	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.8 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2010	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Darlington 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 Woodcreek: 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Darington Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay	Unknown	Sedimentary
	Darington Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay	Producer

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Woodland Gardens	0.5 miles	7
Bowens Manor	0.7 miles	7
Oak Dale	0.9 miles	7
Pepper Ridge	1.0 miles	7
Sartor Estates	1.1 miles	7
Washington Terrace	1.1 miles	7
Pine Village	1.3 miles	7
Darlington	1.5 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1241028. 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.