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Atalaya
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
From the record
“Atalaya Castle, often known simply as Atalaya, was the winter home of industrialist and philanthropist Archer M. Huntington and his wife, the sculptor Anna Hyatt Huntington, located in Huntington Beach State Park near the Atlantic coast in Murrells Inlet, Georgetown County, South Carolina.”
Wikipedia article Atalaya Castle (US), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 38 National Register listings published here for Georgetown County · listed in 1984 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.84002045- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
50 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Atalaya
between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,641 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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/undetermined
28
Debris and open burning
12
Arson/incendiarism
8
Equipment and vehicle use
1
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Murrells Inlet, the town this property stands in, in 37 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 15 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 7 flash flood, 2 waterspout.
The reports record 1 death and 5 injuries. 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.
Flash flooding along Wachesaw Road in Murrells Inlet. Mesonet reports show that over 4 inches of rain had fallen in that area over the previous 5-6 hours.
Heavy rains associated with hurricane Floyd accumulated 9 to 15 inches in the eastern part of the county, causing flooding 3 feet deep in some areas...especially around Murrells Inlet. The City of Georgetown was also flooded.
Residents from Murrells Inlet to Litchfield Beach reported waterspouts developing from showers and thunderstorms off the coast. The waterspouts remained off the coast and caused no damage.
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.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
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.
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.
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