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Goose Creek Heights, South Carolina

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Goose Creek-Hanahan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29445. The Survey maps it on the Ladson quadrangle.

Goose Creek Heights within Berkeley County

On record in Goose Creek Heights

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

12 surveys from 23 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

267 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 267 fires within 5 miles of Goose Creek Heights between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,051 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 63 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/undetermined95
Arson/incendiarism63
Misuse of fire by a minor50
Debris and open burning48
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Other causes1
Fireworks1
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 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance25 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2011Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkeley County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Goose Creek Heights: 1 plant, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Contained or Metal, Iron. 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
C G Rowland ProspectIronProspect
Mount Holly Aluminum PlantAluminum, Contained or MetalPlant1980

Every working recorded in Berkeley 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
The Oaks0.2 miles23
Goose Creek0.2 miles23
Highlands0.5 miles23
Camelot Village0.7 miles23
Maple Ridge0.9 miles23
West Greenview Acres1.0 miles23
Pineview Hills1.2 miles23
Harbour Lake1.4 miles23

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 Q122597942The 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 1234499. 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.