Hiotts, South Carolina

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Cottageville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29435. The Survey maps it on the Round O quadrangle.

Hiotts within Colleton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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.

1918 USGS Walterboro quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1943 USGS Walterboro quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Walterboro quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Round O quadrangle1:24000
1990 USGS Walterboro quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

463 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 463 fires within 5 miles of Hiotts between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,373 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 65 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	212
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	140
Arson/incendiarism	65
Misuse of fire by a minor	15
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Natural	7
Smoking	7
Other causes	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

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 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2005	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colleton 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
Sidney	1.9 miles	17
Round O	2.9 miles	17
Metz Store (historical)	3.0 miles	17
Burr Hill	3.7 miles	17
Drigger Crossroads	3.9 miles	17
Davis Hill	4.2 miles	17
Cottageville	4.4 miles	17
Red Oak Corner	5.3 miles	17

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 Q122558576

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 1240644. 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.