Davis Hill, South Carolina

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Cottageville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29474. It stands on Fuller Swamp Creek. The Survey maps it on the Round O quadrangle.

Davis Hill within Colleton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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.

1918 USGS Walterboro quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1943 USGS Walterboro quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Walterboro quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Round O quadrangle1:24000
1990 USGS Walterboro quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

428 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 428 fires within 5 miles of Davis Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,981 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 61 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	185
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	138
Arson/incendiarism	61
Misuse of fire by a minor	20
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Smoking	4
Natural	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Other causes	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 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2001	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2005	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colleton 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
Round O	1.3 miles	17
Burr Hill	1.8 miles	17
Drigger Crossroads	2.1 miles	17
Gloverville	2.9 miles	17
Cottageville	3.5 miles	17
Hiotts	4.2 miles	17
Iron Crossroads	4.2 miles	16
Pringle Bend	5.4 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231212. 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.