BlockHells Half Acre, South Carolina
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Barnwell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29812. It lies near Barnwell Hill. The Survey maps it on the Barnwell quadrangle.
On record in Hells Half Acre
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 5 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Church of the Holy Apostles Rectorylisted 1972 · 0.1 miles away
Church of the Holy Apostles, Episcopallisted 1972 · 0.2 miles away
Old Presbyterian Churchlisted 1972 · 0.4 miles away
Bethlehem Baptist Churchlisted 1979 · 0.4 miles away
Banksia Halllisted 1974 · 0.5 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1919 USGS Allendale quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1943 USGS Allendale 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
- 1979 USGS Barnwell quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Barnwell quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
272 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 272 fires within 5 miles of Hells Half Acre between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,218 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 23 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 | 99 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 93 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 25 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 23 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 15 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1999 | Natural | 15 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 1997 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.5 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 7.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2019 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barnwell | 0.5 miles | 16 | |
| Happy Bottom | 0.6 miles | 16 | |
| Hagoods Mill | 3.3 miles | 16 | |
| Yale (historical) | 3.4 miles | 16 | |
| Yenome | 4.0 miles | 16 | |
| Snelling | 4.8 miles | 16 | |
| Ashleigh | 4.9 miles | 16 | |
| Long Branch | 5.8 miles | 16 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1235495. 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.