Hickory Forest, South Carolina

17 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 29926. It stands on Coggin Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hilton Head quadrangle.

Hickory Forest within Beaufort County

On record in Hickory Forest

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.

Cherry Hill Schoollisted 2012 · 1.0 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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 Hilton Head quadrangle1:62500
1945 USGS Hilton Head quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Hilton Head quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Beaufort quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

30 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Hickory Forest between 1992 and 2019, burning about 257 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Debris and open burning	6
Arson/incendiarism	3
Natural	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
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
9 August 1995	Natural	under an acre	Pinckney Island National Wildlife Refuge	BULL NO1
3 June 1999	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 June 2019	Natural	20 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 June 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
14 June 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 May 2002	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 May 2014	Natural	2.0 acres	Pinckney Island National Wildlife Refuge	CANDICE FIRE
12 May 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Beaufort County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Hickory Forest: 2 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zirconium, Titanium, Thorium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, REE, Zirconium, Titanium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Gumtree Road Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Hilton Head Island	Zirconium, Titanium, Thorium	Unknown	Placer-Modern-Fluvial
Hilton Head Island Deposit	REE, Zirconium, Titanium	Past Producer	1879

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Gator Field	0.4 miles	17
Hilton Head Plantation	1.0 miles	18
Palmetto Hall Plantation	1.1 miles	17
Port Royal Plantation	2.3 miles	17
Seabrook Landing	2.4 miles	18
Wood Lake	2.5 miles	17
Grasslawn Beach	2.7 miles	17
Folly Field	3.2 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1237233. 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.