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Hilton Head Plantation, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Hilton Head Island census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29926. It stands on Park Creek. The Survey maps it on the Parris Island quadrangle.

Hilton Head Plantation within Beaufort County

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.

Fires near this place

33 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Hilton Head Plantation between 1992 and 2019, burning about 258 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined17
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
21 June 2019Natural20 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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Beaufort County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Hilton Head Plantation: 2 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zirconium, Titanium, Thorium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Gumtree Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Hilton Head IslandZirconium, Titanium, ThoriumUnknownPlacer-Modern-Fluvial
Hilton Head Island DepositREE, Zirconium, TitaniumPast Producer1879

Every working 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 Forest1.0 miles17
Gator Field1.4 miles17
Seabrook Landing1.5 miles18
Palmetto Hall Plantation1.6 miles17
Wood Lake3.0 miles17
Hickory Bluff3.3 miles18
Port Royal Plantation3.3 miles17
Hilton Head Island3.4 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.

Wikidata item Q122596152The 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 1237239. 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.