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.
Population over time
2 figuresBonneau 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,929 | |
| 2020 | 1,982 | +53 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 18 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1920 USGS Chicora quadrangle1:48000
- 1921 USGS Chicora quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1943 USGS Chicora quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Chicora quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Saint George quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Saint George quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
370 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 135 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 109 |
| Debris and open burning | 105 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 12 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 August 1999 | Natural | 5.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 August 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 August 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 August 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Richardson Landing | 1.5 miles | 9 | |
| Bonneau | 2.5 miles | 9 | |
| Wilder (historical) | 3.6 miles | 9 | |
| Wilder | 3.6 miles | 9 | |
| Macbeth | 3.8 miles | 9 | |
| Gravel Hill (historical) | 5.0 miles | 9 | |
| Simpson Crossing | 5.0 miles | 12 | |
| Russellville | 5.5 miles | 9 |
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 Beach | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4942169 | The 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.










