Lawton, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Hilton Head Island census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29928. It lies near Long Island. The Survey maps it on the Bluffton quadrangle.

Lawton 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

11 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Lawton between 1992 and 2013, burning about 68 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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	7
Arson/incendiarism	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
23 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 May 2013	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
22 May 2000	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 April 1999	Smoking	10 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 March 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 February 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 February 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 February 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 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
Fairway Oaks	0.3 miles	18
Calibogue Cay	0.6 miles	18
Sea Pines	0.8 miles	18
Sea Pines Plantation	1.1 miles	18
Harbour Town	1.1 miles	18
Greenwood Forest	1.2 miles	18
Point Comfort	1.4 miles	18
Point Comfort Woods	1.6 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231472. 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.