Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
18 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 lies near Jenkins Island. The Survey maps it on the Bluffton quadrangle. 37,661 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.
On record in Hilton Head Island
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 5 records
Cherry Hill Schoollisted 2012
Rear Lighthouse of Hilton Head Range Light Stationlisted 1985
St. Luke's Parish Zion Chapel of Ease Cemeterylisted 2017- Fort Howelllisted 2011
- Stoney-Baynard Plantationlisted 1994
Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records
- Sea Pines Plantation, 32 Greenwood Drive, Hilton Head Islandfederal building survey, 1 photograph
- Stoney-Baynard House, Plantation Drive, Hilton Head Islandfederal building survey, 14 photographs
Population over time
2 figuresHilton Head Island grew from 37,099 to 37,661 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 | 37,099 | |
| 2020 | 37,661 | +562 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 18 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.
- 1920 USGS Bluffton quadrangle1:62500
- 1945 USGS Bluffton quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Bluffton quadrangle1:24000, 5 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
Photographs
1 photograph,Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
43 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Hilton Head Island between 1992 and 2017, burning about 317 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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 | 22 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
| 23 July 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 June 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | 5.0 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 |
| 22 May 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Hilton Head Island: 3 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zirconium, Titanium, Thorium, 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hilton Head Island | Zirconium, Titanium, Thorium | Unknown | Placer-Modern-Fluvial | |
| Hilton Head Island Deposit | REE, Zirconium, Titanium | Past Producer | 1879 | |
| Cleckley Number 5 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Gumtree Road Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary |
Storms near this place
2 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hilton Head Island in 2 storm reports in 1995: 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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 1995 | Tornado (F1) | Hilton Head Island | $500,000 | no account filed |
| January 1995 | Hail | Hilton Head Island | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hickory Bluff | 0.5 miles | 18 | |
| Honey Horn Plantation | 0.7 miles | 17 | |
| Windmill Harbor | 1.3 miles | 18 | |
| Indigo Run | 1.5 miles | 17 | |
| Otter Hole | 1.8 miles | 17 | |
| Bram Landing | 2.2 miles | 17 | |
| Spanish Wells | 2.2 miles | 18 | |
| Horse Landing | 2.2 miles | 18 |
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 Hilton Head Island | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1001134 | 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 1246002. 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.
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.








