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Grays Hill, South Carolina

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Beaufort-Port Royal census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29906. The Survey maps it on the Beaufort quadrangle.

Grays Hill within Beaufort County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

231 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 231 fires within 5 miles of Grays Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 960 acres in total. None started naturally. 57 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
Debris and open burning82
Missing data/not specified/undetermined73
Arson/incendiarism57
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
17 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 August 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 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

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Grays Hill: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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
Coosawhatchee Region DepositsPhosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Fluorine-FluoritePast Producer1963

Every working recorded in Beaufort County

Storms near this place

14 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grays Hill in 14 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2009LightningGrays Hill1 hurtLaw Enforcement reported that a man was struck by lightning near a home on Lawson Road. He was reported to be conscious and alert after being struck, but no other information was available regarding the condition of the victim.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindGrays Hill$15,000A trained weather spotter reported trees down on houses as well as downed power lines in the Park Circle subdivision, 2 miles northeast of Laurel Bay, South Carolina.
May 2025LightningGrays Hill$10,000Beaufort County Emergency Management reported a lightning strike to a tree that started a fire that spread to a power pole at the intersection of Parker Drive and Trask Parkway.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindGrays Hill$1,000Power lines were knocked down in Grays Hill.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindGrays Hill-Beaufort County Emergency Management reported a tree down at 58 Big Road.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindGrays Hill-The Beaufort County Warning Point reported trees down on Clarendon Road.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindGrays Hill-The Beaufort County Warning Point reported a tree down at the 300 Block of Bruce K Smalls Drive.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindGrays Hill-A Beaufort County emergency manager reported a tree across the roadway at the intersection of Clarendon Road and Trask Parkway.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindGrays Hill-A Beaufort County emergency manager reported a tree on power lines along Bruce K Smalls Drive.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindGrays Hill-A tree was reported down on Hampton Drive.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindGrays Hill-The Beaufort County 911 Call Center reported a tree down on Shanklin Road in the Burton area.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindGrays Hill-A spotter reported a wind gust of 58 mph near the north end of the Beaufort MCAS.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindGrays Hill-The public reported numerous trees down from a thunderstorm on Bruce K Smalls Drive.
June 2008HailGrays Hill-Quarter size hail was reported in Grays Hill, 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
Pinewood2.7 miles15
Seabrook2.7 miles19
Roseida2.8 miles19
Salt Creek3.1 miles19
Irongate3.2 miles15
Red Bluff Estates3.2 miles19
Peace Haven3.4 miles19
Pleasant Point3.7 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1222847. 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.