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Bunker Hill, South Carolina

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Dillon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29536. The Survey maps it on the Dillon West quadrangle.

Bunker Hill within Dillon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

330 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 330 fires within 5 miles of Bunker Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,185 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 73 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/undetermined108
Debris and open burning79
Arson/incendiarism73
Equipment and vehicle use32
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Natural6
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking4
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1

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 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2009Equipment and vehicle use50 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2018Other causes3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2009Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dillon 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
Little Rock2.0 miles7
Selma2.4 miles9
Manning Crossroads2.7 miles7
Dillon3.5 miles9
Dothan3.5 miles7
Galavon3.7 miles7
McCormick Crossroads4.4 miles7
Newtown4.5 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1221124. 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.