Laurel Hill Plantation, South Carolina

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the McClellanville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29458. It stands on Sandy Point Creek. The Survey maps it on the Awendaw quadrangle.

Laurel Hill Plantation within Charleston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1943 USGS Awendaw quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1949 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

222 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 222 fires within 5 miles of Laurel Hill Plantation between 1992 and 2019, burning about 4,907 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 103 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
Arson/incendiarism	103
Debris and open burning	57
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	52
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	2
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
22 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1993	Debris and open burning	9.7 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	not named
14 September 1998	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 1995	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	WHILDEN
5 July 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	BIG BANG

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Buck Hall	0.6 miles	11
Pineland	2.2 miles	11
Tibwin	2.5 miles	11
Awendaw	3.6 miles	11
Fort Corner	4.4 miles	10
McClellanville	5.2 miles	11
Moores Corner	5.3 miles	11
Thompson Corner	5.4 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1223831. 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.