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Browns Hill, South Carolina

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Jackson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29831. It stands on Musterfield Branch. The Survey maps it on the Jackson quadrangle.

Browns Hill within Aiken County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

135 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 135 fires within 5 miles of Browns Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 830 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 11 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 burning65
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Arson/incendiarism11
Equipment and vehicle use8
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes2
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
9 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2015Debris and open burning2.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Aiken County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Browns Hill: 3 occurrences, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Thorium, Titanium, Zirconium, REE, Cobalt, Manganese. 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
Silver BluffCobalt, ManganeseOccurrence
Hollow CreekThorium, Titanium, ZirconiumUnknownPlacer-Modern-Fluvial
Hollow CreekREEOccurrence
Town CreekThorium, Titanium, ZirconiumUnknownPlacer-Modern-Fluvial
Town CreekREEOccurrence

Every working recorded in Aiken 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
Kathwood1.1 miles19
Hankinson2.3 miles19
Twiggs2.3 miles21
Spiderweb3.9 miles19
Jackson4.3 miles19
Hollow Creek5.0 miles19
Beech Island5.1 miles21
Savanna Town (historical)5.4 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1247024. 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.