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Photograph of Galivants Ferry Historic District
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Galivants Ferry Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

“Galivants Ferry Historic District is a national historic district located at Galivants Ferry in Horry County, South Carolina. It encompasses 28 contributing buildings that reflect the agricultural heritage of Galivants Ferry and of the larger Pee Dee region.”

Wikipedia article Galivants Ferry Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Horry County · listed in 2001 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Fires near this property

137 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 137 fires within 5 miles of Galivants Ferry Historic District between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,121 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 43 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/incendiarism43
Debris and open burning40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
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
28 September 1998Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2010Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2019Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2003Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2008Naturalunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 2007Arson/incendiarism3.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Horry County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Galivants Ferry Historic District: 1 unknown, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Asphalt Products PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
Asphalt Products Pit No. 7Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Horry County

Storms near this property

16 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Galivants Ferry, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 11 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail. 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
January 2013Thunderstorm WindGalivants Ferry$3,000Trees were reported down near the intersection of Highway 917 and Marsh Lake Road. The report was relayed by a Meteorologist with WBTW.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindGalivants Ferry$2,000Two trees were reported down on a farm just off of Wolf Pit Bay Rd. The time was estimated based on radar data.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindGalivants Ferry$1,000Several trees down on Pee Dee Hwy near Galivants Ferry.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindGalivants Ferry$1,000There were two large trees blown down in Galivants Ferry.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindGalivants Ferry$1,000A tree was reported down near the intersection of Highway 308 and Page Road.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindGalivants Ferry$1,000A tree was reported down at the intersection of US Highway 501 and Highway 129. The time was estimated based on radar data.
January 1996Thunderstorm WindGalivants Ferry$500no account filed
April 2023Thunderstorm WindGalivants Ferry-Large tree down across the road near Lake Swamp Road and Pee Dee Highway North.
June 2009HailGalivants Ferry-Hail to the size of pennies was reported.
May 2006HailGalivants Ferry-Nickel size hail was reported.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindGalivants Ferry-Horry county electric reported numerous trees down.
May 2001HailGalivants Ferry-Spotter reported dime size hail.
September 1999Thunderstorm WindGalivants Ferry-A tree was downed along Highway U.S. 501 between Galivants Ferry and Aynor.
April 2006HailGalivants Ferry-no account filed
May 1998HailGalivants Ferry-no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindGalivants Ferry-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Horry County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 01000321 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Horry CountyAll 38 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • 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.
  • 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.