Forrest Hills, South Carolina

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Latta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29565. It stands on Reedy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Latta quadrangle.

Forrest Hills within Dillon County

On record in Forrest Hills

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 4 records

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

Latta Historic District No. 1listed 1984 · 0.5 miles away
McMillan Houselisted 1984 · 0.7 miles away
Latta Historic District No. 2listed 1984 · 0.8 miles away
Latta Downtown Historic Districtlisted 1998 · 0.8 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1953 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Latta quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Florence quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

235 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 235 fires within 5 miles of Forrest Hills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,443 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 44 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	92
Debris and open burning	50
Arson/incendiarism	44
Equipment and vehicle use	23
Natural	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Smoking	6
Recreation and ceremony	4
Fireworks	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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 September 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1997	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2007	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2001	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dillon 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
Latta	0.8 miles	7
Bass Crossroads	1.8 miles	7
Dalcho	3.1 miles	7
Berrys Crossroads	3.1 miles	7
Dothan	3.9 miles	7
Mallory	4.8 miles	9
Centerville	5.3 miles	7
Oak Grove	5.3 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231290. 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.