Halls Mill, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Brunson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29911. The Survey maps it on the Fairfax quadrangle.

Halls Mill within Hampton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

1918 USGS Varnville quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1944 USGS Varnville quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Sylvania quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Fairfax quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

254 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 254 fires within 5 miles of Halls Mill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 718 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 40 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 burning	90
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	85
Arson/incendiarism	40
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Natural	13
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Smoking	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Fireworks	1
Other causes	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
3 September 2018	Natural	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2012	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hampton 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
Brunson	1.6 miles	16
Pond Town	1.7 miles	16
Richardson Crossroads	2.9 miles	16
Hampton	3.0 miles	16
Cleland Crossroads	3.2 miles	16
Dukes	3.9 miles	16
Crocketville	4.7 miles	16
Gifford	5.2 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231358. 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.