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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.

Hilton Head Island within Beaufort County

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Hilton 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.

YearPeople Change
201037,099
202037,661+562 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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.

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.

Stoney-Baynard House, Plantation Drive, Hilton Head Island, Beaufort County, SC
Stoney-Baynard House, Plantation Drive, Hilton Head Island, Beaufort County, SC
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

43 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined22
Debris and open burning8
Arson/incendiarism5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural2
Smoking1

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
9 August 1995Naturalunder an acrePinckney Island National Wildlife RefugeBULL NO1
23 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 June 1999Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 June 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 June 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 May 2002Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 May 2014Natural2.0 acresPinckney Island National Wildlife RefugeCANDICE FIRE
22 May 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Beaufort County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hilton Head IslandZirconium, Titanium, ThoriumUnknownPlacer-Modern-Fluvial
Hilton Head Island DepositREE, Zirconium, TitaniumPast Producer1879
Cleckley Number 5Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Gumtree Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Beaufort County

Storms near this place

2 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1995Tornado (F1)Hilton Head Island$500,000no account filed
January 1995HailHilton Head Island-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Beaufort 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
Hickory Bluff0.5 miles18
Honey Horn Plantation0.7 miles17
Windmill Harbor1.3 miles18
Indigo Run1.5 miles17
Otter Hole1.8 miles17
Bram Landing2.2 miles17
Spanish Wells2.2 miles18
Horse Landing2.2 miles18

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 IslandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1001134The 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.