Forest Beach, South Carolina

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 Hilton Head quadrangle1:62500
• 1945 USGS Hilton Head quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Hilton Head quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1978 USGS Beaufort quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Forest Beach between 1992 and 2011, burning about 48 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Lawton
• Sea Pines Plantation
• Calibogue Cay
• Fairway Oaks
• Greenwood Forest
• Harbour Town

Every fire recorded in Beaufort County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Forest Beach: 1 unknown, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zirconium, Titanium, Thorium, 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.

Every working recorded in Beaufort County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Forest Beach in 22 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 5 lightning, 4 flash flood, 2 hail. 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.

Every storm recorded in Beaufort County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1228033. 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.