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Folly Field, South Carolina

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Hilton Head Island census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29928. The Survey maps it on the Hilton Head quadrangle.

Folly Field within Beaufort County

On record in Folly Field

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

Fires near this place

33 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Folly Field between 1992 and 2011, burning about 142 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined19
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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 August 1995Naturalunder an acrePinckney Island National Wildlife RefugeBULL NO1
23 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 June 1999Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 June 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 June 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 May 2002Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 May 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 May 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Beaufort County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Folly Field: 2 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zirconium, Titanium, Thorium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, REE, Zirconium, Titanium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gumtree Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Hilton Head IslandZirconium, Titanium, ThoriumUnknownPlacer-Modern-Fluvial
Hilton Head Island DepositREE, Zirconium, TitaniumPast Producer1879

Every working recorded in Beaufort County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Folly Field in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2022: 1 flash flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2022LightningFolly Field1 hurtBeaufort County Emergency Management reported that a woman was struck by lightning on the beach at Hilton Head near Palmetto Dunes. The woman was struck on the shoulder with distinct entrance and exit wounds. The woman stopped breathing but was successfully revived with CPR. Three people standing approximately 15 feet away from the victim observed their hair stand on end before the strike and were knocked to the ground by the jolt, but uninjured.
September 2010Flash FloodFolly Field$500Law Enforcement reported that one lane of Folly Field Road was closed due to water on the roadway on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Grasslawn Beach0.8 miles17
Wood Lake1.1 miles17
Bram Landing1.5 miles17
Port Royal Plantation1.6 miles17
Palmetto Dunes2.1 miles17
Indigo Run2.1 miles17
Shelter Cove2.3 miles17
Palmetto Hall Plantation2.3 miles17

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122598653The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231288. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.