Hillcrest, South Carolina

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the North Hartsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29550. It stands on Dry Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hartsville North quadrangle.

Hillcrest within Darlington County

On record in Hillcrest

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 4 records

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

Lawton Park and Pavilionlisted 1991 · 0.6 miles away
J. B. Gilbert Houselisted 1991 · 0.8 miles away
East Home Avenue Historic Districtlisted 1991 · 0.9 miles away
John L. Hart Houselisted 1983 · 1.0 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

1941 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Hartsville North quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Camden quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Camden South quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

560 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 560 fires within 5 miles of Hillcrest between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,614 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 76 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	215
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	158
Arson/incendiarism	76
Equipment and vehicle use	34
Misuse of fire by a minor	34
Natural	19
Smoking	10
Recreation and ceremony	6
Other causes	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Fireworks	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 2007	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2018	Debris and open burning	20 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2011	Natural	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2019	Natural	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2009	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2007	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Darlington 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
North Hartsville	0.5 miles	14
Dunlap Terrace	0.6 miles	14
Club Colony	0.8 miles	14
Prestwood Village	0.9 miles	14
Glendale	1.0 miles	14
Woodbridge	1.1 miles	14
College Heights	1.1 miles	14
Hartsville	1.2 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1241295. 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.