Lands End, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the St. Helena Island census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29920. It lies near Saint Phillips Island. The Survey maps it on the Parris Island quadrangle.

Lands End within Beaufort County

On record in Lands End

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.

Fort Fremont Batterylisted 2010 · 1.0 miles away

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.

1944 USGS Fort Fremont quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Parris Island quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Fort Fremont quadrangle1:62500
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Beaufort quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

40 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Lands End between 1993 and 2020, burning about 153 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Arson/incendiarism	8
Natural	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
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 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 June 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 June 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 June 2019	Natural	20 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 June 2001	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Fort Fremont	1.2 miles	18
Santa Elena (historical)	2.1 miles	18
Longwood	2.7 miles	18
Scott	3.9 miles	18
Hickory Forest	4.2 miles	17
Gator Field	4.3 miles	17
Hilton Head Plantation	4.6 miles	18
Port Royal Plantation	5.2 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1244044. 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.