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Boulder Bluff, South Carolina

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Goose Creek-Hanahan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29445. The Survey maps it on the Mount Holly quadrangle.

Boulder Bluff within Berkeley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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 Boulder Bluff between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,349 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 70 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/undetermined151
Debris and open burning75
Arson/incendiarism70
Misuse of fire by a minor51
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony4
Fireworks3
Other causes1
Natural1
Smoking1

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
22 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance25 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2011Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 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

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Boulder Bluff: 1 plant, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Aluminum, Contained or Metal, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
C G Rowland ProspectIronProspect
Janet MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mount Holly Aluminum PlantAluminum, Contained or MetalPlant1980

Every working 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
Mount Holly0.5 miles19
Holly Court0.7 miles19
Beverly Hills0.9 miles19
Woodland Heights0.9 miles19
Colonial Heights1.1 miles19
Foxborough1.2 miles19
Hound Run1.3 miles19
Shannon Park1.5 miles19

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.

Wikidata item Q122553399The 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 1234443. 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.