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Bonneau Beach, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Bonneau census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29431. The Survey maps it on the Chicora quadrangle. 1,982 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 82 feet above sea level.

Bonneau Beach within Berkeley County

Population over time

2 figures

Bonneau Beach grew from 1,929 to 1,982 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,929
20201,982+53 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

370 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 370 fires within 5 miles of Bonneau Beach between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,686 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 109 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/undetermined135
Arson/incendiarism109
Debris and open burning105
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking4
Natural3

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
9 September 2011Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1997Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2006Arson/incendiarism12 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 1999Natural5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkeley 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
Richardson Landing1.5 miles9
Bonneau2.5 miles9
Wilder (historical)3.6 miles9
Wilder3.6 miles9
Macbeth3.8 miles9
Gravel Hill (historical)5.0 miles9
Simpson Crossing5.0 miles12
Russellville5.5 miles9

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.

Wikipedia article on Bonneau BeachAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4942169The 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 1231071. 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.