Colonial Heights, South Carolina

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Beaufort-Port Royal census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29906. It lies near Port Royal Island. The Survey maps it on the Beaufort quadrangle.

Colonial Heights within Beaufort 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.

1944 USGS Fort Fremont quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Beaufort quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1959 USGS Fort Fremont quadrangle1:62500
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Beaufort quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1998 USGS Beaufort quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

148 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 148 fires within 5 miles of Colonial Heights between 1992 and 2020, burning about 556 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 29 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 burning	52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	46
Arson/incendiarism	29
Misuse of fire by a minor	15
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	1
Fireworks	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
6 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
14 August 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 July 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 July 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 July 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
White Oaks	0.7 miles	15
Forest Fields	1.0 miles	19
Broad River Bluff	1.2 miles	15
Quail Ridge	1.3 miles	15
Pleasant Farm	1.3 miles	15
Cherry Hill Estates	1.4 miles	19
Palmetto Estates	1.4 miles	19
River Reach	1.5 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1237173. 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.