Chapel Hill, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Cross census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29436. The Survey maps it on the Chicora quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Chapel Hill within Berkeley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

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

577 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 577 fires within 5 miles of Chapel Hill (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,922 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 162 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	247
Arson/incendiarism	162
Debris and open burning	137
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Natural	4
Smoking	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Other causes	1
Fireworks	1

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 2018	Natural	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	12 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2018	Debris and open burning	15 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Cross Cross Roads	1.8 miles	18
Nelson Hill	2.1 miles	18
Cross	2.4 miles	18
Moss Pond (historical)	3.0 miles	18
Moss Grove	3.7 miles	18
Spring Plain (historical)	4.2 miles	18
Prioleau	4.7 miles	18
Eadytown	5.0 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1234287. 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.