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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.

Hilda within Barnwell County

Population over time

2 figures

Hilda 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.

YearPeople Change
2010447
2020418-29 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

228 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined86
Debris and open burning77
Equipment and vehicle use24
Arson/incendiarism19
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Natural5
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
5 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1997Debris and open burning4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barnwell County

Storms near this place

12 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2010Thunderstorm WindHilda$8,000Sheriff reported large trees down on November and Hartzog roads.
November 2011Thunderstorm WindHilda$6,000Sheriff reported trees down in the Hilda area.
April 1999Tornado (F0)Hilda$3,000An 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 2022Thunderstorm WindHilda-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 2020Tornado (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 2017Heavy RainHilda-COOP observer 5 miles ENE of Barnwell measured a total rainfall amount of 6.35 inches.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindHilda-County sheriff reported trees down at Govan Highway and Friendship Road.
March 2012HailHilda-COOPERATIVE Observer reported quarter size hail just south of Hilda.
June 2010HailHilda-Public reported quarter size hail in Hilda.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindHilda-The Hilda Fire Department reported several trees down in the area.
May 2006HailHilda-Public reported nickel size hail.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindHilda-Highway Dept. reports several trees were blow down along SC Highway 86.

Every storm recorded in Barnwell 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
Ashleigh4.2 miles16
Yale (historical)4.6 miles16
Hagoods Mill5.5 miles16
Rosemary (historical)5.5 miles15
Blackville6.0 miles16
Barnwell6.2 miles16
Hells Half Acre6.7 miles16
Happy Bottom7.0 miles16

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 HildaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3240495The 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.