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Heritage Woods, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Hilton Head Island census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29928. It stands on Baynard Cove Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bluffton quadrangle.

Heritage Woods within Beaufort County

On record in Heritage Woods

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 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

Fires near this place

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Heritage Woods between 1996 and 2017, burning about 574 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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
Smoking2
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
26 May 2013Arson/incendiarism20 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 May 2017Smoking54 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 April 1999Smoking10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 March 1999Debris and open burning480 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 March 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 January 2004Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Greenwood Forest0.6 miles18
Harbour Town0.7 miles18
Sea Pines0.9 miles18
Fairway Oaks1.3 miles18
South Beach Villas1.3 miles17
Calibogue Cay1.6 miles18
Lawton1.6 miles18
Sea Pines Plantation2.1 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1237232. 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.