Hawthorne, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Jackson census division. The Survey maps it on the New Ellenton SW quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Hawthorne within Aiken County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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.

1920 USGS Talatha quadrangle1:48000
1921 USGS Talatha quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1943 USGS Augusta East quadrangle1:125000
1943 USGS Talatha quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS New Ellenton SW quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1982 USGS Barnwell quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

116 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Hawthorne (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 542 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 5 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	32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Natural	21
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Smoking	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
Fireworks	2
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
7 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2004	Misuse of fire by a minor	10 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 1994	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Savannah River Forest	not named
24 September 2002	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Savannah River Forest	B-LINE
12 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 2011	Natural	160 acres	Savannah River Forest	ROAD 2
3 August 1993	Natural	under an acre	Savannah River Forest	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Aiken 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
Johnson Crossroads	4.1 miles	18
Talatha	4.3 miles	18
Jackson	4.7 miles	19
Cowden	6.0 miles	19
New Ellenton	6.1 miles	18
Bush (historical)	6.2 miles	19
Hollow Creek	6.9 miles	19
Dry Branch	7.0 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1236360. 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.