Hilda, South Carolina
15 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. The Survey maps it on the Denmark quadrangle. 418 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 253 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresHilda fell from 447 to 418 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 447 | |
| 2020 | 418 | -29 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 15 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 Bamberg quadrangle1:48000
- 1920 USGS Bamberg quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Bamberg 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 Denmark quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Barnwell quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
228 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 228 fires within 5 miles of Hilda between 1992 and 2020, burning about 982 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 19 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 | 86 |
| Debris and open burning | 77 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 24 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 19 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 9 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 September 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
12 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hilda in 12 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hilda | $8,000 | Sheriff reported large trees down on November and Hartzog roads. |
| November 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hilda | $6,000 | Sheriff reported trees down in the Hilda area. |
| April 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Hilda | $3,000 | An F0 touched down on the east side of Hilda and damaged a small farm. One shed was destroyed, some equipment, and a few trees were down. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hilda | - | Hilda town council member provided a report and photos, via social media, of multiple downed trees and large limbs in the town of Hilda. Also, parts of a metal roof were blown off. The damage extended from Broughton Ave to along Railroad Ave. Time estimated. |
| April 2020 | Tornado (EF3) | Hilda | - | A tornado touched down in far southeast Barnwell moving northeastward toward the Bamberg county line southeast of the town of Hilda, briefly intensifying to a strong tornado along Hartzog Road. The tornado length was 5.5 miles and had a width of 800 yards at its widest point. The tornado was rated EF-3, with peak winds of 145 mph. ||The tornado began just north of Highway 64 at Green Branch Road near Indigo Road. The tornado moved northeast across Hercules Creek and caused significant tree damage at a residence on Friendship Road. Several oak and pine trees were uprooted and snapped. A cinder block garage had its metal roofing peeled off and the wind stress shifted the cinder blocks about half way up the wall. Along its northeastward path, there was continued tree damage but the tornado strengthened rapidly as it crossed Hartzog Road just south of November Road. A well built bolted down metal |building structure and tin tractor shed was completely destroyed. Further north along Hartzog Road, a residence had part of its roof lifted off and behind the residence, a two story wood frame building was shifted off its foundation and destroyed an unanchored log cabin was destroyed. As the tornado moved northeast toward Huckleberry Bay Road there were multiple hardwood trees snapped near the base of the trees. The tornado began to weaken as it crossed Old Salem Road continuing to damage trees along its path before dissipating just north of Huttos Chapel |Road. |
| September 2017 | Heavy Rain | Hilda | - | COOP observer 5 miles ENE of Barnwell measured a total rainfall amount of 6.35 inches. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hilda | - | County sheriff reported trees down at Govan Highway and Friendship Road. |
| March 2012 | Hail | Hilda | - | COOPERATIVE Observer reported quarter size hail just south of Hilda. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Hilda | - | Public reported quarter size hail in Hilda. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hilda | - | The Hilda Fire Department reported several trees down in the area. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Hilda | - | Public reported nickel size hail. |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hilda | - | Highway Dept. reports several trees were blow down along SC Highway 86. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashleigh | 4.2 miles | 16 | |
| Yale (historical) | 4.6 miles | 16 | |
| Hagoods Mill | 5.5 miles | 16 | |
| Rosemary (historical) | 5.5 miles | 15 | |
| Blackville | 6.0 miles | 16 | |
| Barnwell | 6.2 miles | 16 | |
| Hells Half Acre | 6.7 miles | 16 | |
| Happy Bottom | 7.0 miles | 16 |
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 Hilda | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3240495 | The 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 1231388. 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.
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.









