Hillside, South Carolina

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Darlington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29532. The Survey maps it on the Darlington East quadrangle.

Hillside within Darlington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1953 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Darlington East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Florence quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

295 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 295 fires within 5 miles of Hillside between 1992 and 2020, burning about 900 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 41 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	102
Debris and open burning	102
Arson/incendiarism	41
Equipment and vehicle use	20
Misuse of fire by a minor	17
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Other causes	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
30 September 2003	Misuse of fire by a minor	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2003	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.8 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Darlington County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Hillside: 2 producers, 2 past producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Asphalt Plant #8	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Sedimentary
Black Creek Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
No. 8 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Quinby Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Quinly Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant

Every working 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
Meadow Brook	0.6 miles	7
Crestview	1.0 miles	7
Palmetto	2.2 miles	7
Howards Crossroads	2.5 miles	7
Palmetto Shores	2.6 miles	11
Pepper Ridge	3.9 miles	7
Washington Terrace	4.4 miles	7
Bowens Manor	4.6 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1245995. 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.