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Buckingham Landing, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Bluffton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29910. It lies near Goat Island. The Survey maps it on the Bluffton quadrangle.

Buckingham Landing within Beaufort County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

90 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Buckingham Landing between 1992 and 2017, burning about 697 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined47
Debris and open burning18
Arson/incendiarism13
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
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 August 1995Naturalunder an acrePinckney Island National Wildlife RefugeBULL NO1
6 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined149 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 2001Natural10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 July 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 July 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Beaufort 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 Buckingham Landing: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, REE, Zirconium, 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
Hilton Head Island DepositREE, Zirconium, TitaniumPast Producer1879
Cleckley Number 5Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Gumtree Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Beaufort 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
Horse Landing1.1 miles18
Windmill Harbor1.5 miles18
Hickory Bluff2.3 miles18
Hilton Head Island2.7 miles18
Brighton Beach2.8 miles18
Spanish Wells2.9 miles18
Honey Horn Plantation3.1 miles17
Bluffton3.3 miles18

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 Q122599091The 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 1231098. 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.