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Hannah, South Carolina

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Pamplico census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29583. The Survey maps it on the Pamplico South quadrangle. It stands 62 feet above sea level.

Hannah within Florence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

272 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 272 fires within 5 miles of Hannah between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,504 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 82 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 burning84
Arson/incendiarism82
Missing data/not specified/undetermined71
Equipment and vehicle use17
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
8 September 2001Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2003Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2009Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Florence 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 Hannah: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand. 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
Johnsonville PlantSandProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Florence County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hannah in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2013: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
May 2011HailHannah$30,000Hail to the size of softballs reportedly broke a car window.
April 2013Thunderstorm WindHannah$1,000A large tree was down across U.S. 378 near the intersection with Kent Road.
July 2011HailHannah$500Hail to the size of quarters was reported.

Every storm recorded in Florence 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
Poston Crossroads2.3 miles8
Half Moon (historical)2.9 miles8
Bazen Crossroads3.2 miles8
Burkett Landing3.7 miles8
Prospect Crossroads3.8 miles8
Leo3.9 miles8
Butler Crossroads4.3 miles8
Blossom4.4 miles8

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.

Wikipedia article on HannahAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5648775The 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 1231363. 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.