Horse Landing, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Bluffton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29926. It lies near Buzzard Island. The Survey maps it on the Bluffton quadrangle.

Horse Landing 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.

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

Fires near this place

65 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Horse Landing between 1992 and 2017, burning about 451 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 8 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	32
Debris and open burning	12
Arson/incendiarism	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Natural	3
Recreation and ceremony	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
16 August 2001	Natural	10 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 July 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 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
13 June 2002	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

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 Horse Landing: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
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

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Buckingham Landing	1.1 miles	18
Windmill Harbor	1.5 miles	18
Hickory Bluff	1.7 miles	18
Hilton Head Island	2.2 miles	18
Seabrook Landing	2.6 miles	18
Honey Horn Plantation	2.8 miles	17
Spanish Wells	3.2 miles	18
Indigo Run	3.7 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231403. 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.