Cherry Hill, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Ninety Six census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29666. It stands on Brightmans Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ninety Six quadrangle.

Cherry Hill within Greenwood County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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.

1892 USGS Abbeville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1949 USGS Ninety-Six quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Ninety-Six quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Abbeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

146 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 146 fires within 5 miles of Cherry Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 536 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 10 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	74
Debris and open burning	31
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Arson/incendiarism	10
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Natural	5
Smoking	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

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
3 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.2 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	100 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greenwood 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
Ninety Six	1.7 miles	15
Colonial Heights	2.0 miles	15
Magnolia Place	2.4 miles	15
Springdale	2.4 miles	15
Irvines Landing	2.7 miles	15
Harbor Heights	2.7 miles	15
Pinehurst	3.1 miles	15
Godsey	3.1 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1234072. 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.