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Baptist Hill, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Ravenel-Hollywood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29449. The Survey maps it on the Adams Run quadrangle.

Baptist Hill within Charleston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

233 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 233 fires within 5 miles of Baptist Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,383 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 46 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 burning97
Missing data/not specified/undetermined74
Arson/incendiarism46
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance3

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
18 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 July 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 July 2002Natural1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 July 2006Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charleston County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Baptist Hill: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Zirconium, Thorium, Titanium. 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
Ravenels QuadrangleIron, Zirconium, Thorium, TitaniumUnknownPlacer , Modern , Beach

Every working recorded in Charleston County

Storms near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Baptist Hill in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2023Thunderstorm WindBaptist Hill$1,000Charleston County dispatch reported a tree down on Ethel Post Office Road near the intersection with Mule Barn Road.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindBaptist Hill$1,000A National Weather Service employee reported a tree and large tree limbs down around the intersection of Toogadoo Road and Parishville Road, 3 miles west of Meggett, South Carolina.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindBaptist Hill-Local broadcast media relayed a report of several trees down along parts of Toogoodoo Road.

Every storm recorded in Charleston 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
Laroche1.2 miles18
Laurel Hill1.2 miles18
Hollywood1.4 miles17
Meggett1.9 miles17
Ravenel2.3 miles16
Gibson2.4 miles18
Jericho3.1 miles16
Capwells Crossroads3.2 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231025. 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.

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.