General Hamiltons Settlement, South Carolina

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Hardeeville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29927. It lies near Pennyworth Island. The Survey maps it on the Savannah quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

General Hamiltons Settlement within Jasper County

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.

1942 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

107 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of General Hamiltons Settlement (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 3,879 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 17 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
Railroad operations and maintenance	37
Arson/incendiarism	17
Debris and open burning	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Natural	4
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
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
4 August 1993	Natural	under an acre	Savannah Refuges	HWY-17
25 August 2016	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-CHATHAM-004
11 August 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Savannah Refuges	CHEVY VAN FIRE
9 July 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Savannah Refuges	KANASKI FIRE
8 July 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Savannah Refuges	170 FIRE #2
8 July 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Savannah Refuges	170 FIRE #1
4 July 2019	Natural	279 acres	Savannah Refuges	EAST MARSH
24 July 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Savannah Refuges	ONSLOW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jasper County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of General Hamiltons Settlement (historical): 2 past producers, 1 producer, 1 plant. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Pigment. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Douglas Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Savannah Plant Ti	Titanium, Pigment	Plant	1955
Flintkote/ Savannah, Ga.	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer
National Gypsum/ Savannah, Ga.	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Jasper 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
Hugers Settlement (historical)	0.4 miles	17
Turnbridge Landing	4.6 miles	15
Glasgow Landing	5.8 miles	17
Limehouse	7.0 miles	15
Levy	7.2 miles	15
Cook Landing	7.7 miles	15
Good Hope Landing	7.7 miles	17
Mill Stone Landing	12.0 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1241345. 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.