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Kiawah Island, South Carolina

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Kiawah Island-Seabrook Island census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29455. It stands on Kiawah Island. The Survey maps it on the Kiawah Island quadrangle. 2,013 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 13 feet above sea level.

Kiawah Island within Charleston County

On record in Kiawah 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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Kiawah Island grew from 1,626 to 2,013 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
20101,626
20202,013+387 (+24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 22 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

44 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Kiawah Island between 1992 and 2017, burning about 231 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined25
Debris and open burning15
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural1

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
11 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 July 2007Natural4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 May 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 May 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charleston 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
Legareville3.6 miles22
Huskum Corner Cross Roads5.0 miles22
Seabrook Island5.0 miles19
Rockville5.9 miles19
Camp Saint Christopher5.9 miles19
Rockland6.2 miles19
Oakgrove6.9 miles17
Fenwick Crossroads7.8 miles22

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 Kiawah IslandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2393432The 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 1253569. 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.