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Liberty Hill, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Westville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29074. The Survey maps it on the Liberty Hill quadrangle. It stands 561 feet above sea level.

Liberty Hill within Kershaw County

On record in Liberty Hill

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

49 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Liberty Hill between 1993 and 2020, burning about 431 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined22
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural4
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
23 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2014Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 2003Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 2001Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 2001Misuse of fire by a minor3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kershaw County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Liberty Hill: 2 unknowns, 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Dimension, Quartz, Granite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Carolina Diamond Gray QuarryStone, DimensionUnknownIgneous
Diamond Gray QuarryGranitePast Producer
Liberty Hill DepositQuartzPast Producer1954
Liberty Hill QuarryStoneUnknownIgneous
Liberty Hill QuarryStoneProducer

Every working recorded in Kershaw County

Storms near this place

24 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Liberty Hill in 24 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 18 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2011HailLiberty Hill$40,000Post Office reported golfball size hail in Liberty Hill.
April 2011HailLiberty Hill$30,000Golfball size hail reported for 5 minutes at the River Deck Store on Lake Wateree. Hail damaged the canopy at the store and covered the ground.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindLiberty Hill$8,000Electric company reported trees and powerlines down along Garden Spot Lane near Hwy 97.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindLiberty Hill$6,000Electric company reported a tree down on HWY 97 northwest of Camden taking down powerlines.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindLiberty Hill$5,000Spotter reported large branches down on a couple of homes on Lake Wateree on Beaver Creek road.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindLiberty Hill$2,000Sheriff reported several trees down in the Liberty Hill area on Hwy 97.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindLiberty Hill$1,000DOT reported a couple of trees down along Hwy 97.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindLiberty Hill-Emergency Manager reports a downed tree on Singleton Creek Road at Liberty Hill Road blocking the roadway.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindLiberty Hill-Kershaw County dispatch reported a tree fell along Hwy 97 at the post office.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindLiberty Hill-Tree down at the intersection of Beaver Creek Road and John G. Richards Road.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindLiberty Hill-Public reported a downed tree and a damaged transformer near a restaurant on Lake Wateree near SC Hwy 97 and Spring Rock Rd.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindLiberty Hill-A tree was downed on John G Richards Rd and Beaver Creek Rd. Time estimated.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindLiberty Hill-Tree down on Garden Spot Ln at Hwy 97. Time estimated.
September 2017HailLiberty Hill-Quarter size hail reported at Lake Wateree campground.
September 2017Thunderstorm WindLiberty Hill-Trees down at Lake Wateree Campground.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindLiberty Hill-A live tree was downed on Singleton Creek Rd near Lake Wateree.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindLiberty Hill-Three trees reported down on Peays Ferry Road and Highway 97.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindLiberty Hill-Sheriff's Dispatch reported trees down in the Liberty Hill area.
March 2008Tornado (EF1)Liberty Hill-Lancaster Deputy Emergency Manager and Kershaw Emergency Manager and DOT reported trees down running west to east just south of the Lancaster/Kershaw county line. This is the same cell that developed in northeast Fairfield county and continued into Chesterfield county.
May 2007HailLiberty Hill-Public reported penny size hail in the Liberty Hill area.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindLiberty Hill-Electric company reported powerlines down in the Liberty Hill and Cawtaba area.
May 2005HailLiberty Hill-Public reported golf ball size hail in the Liberty Hill area.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindLiberty Hill-Post Office reported powerlines down.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindLiberty Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kershaw 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
Warrington3.3 miles13
Red Hill5.0 miles19
Stoneboro5.5 miles13
Robinson Crossroad8.8 miles13
Flat Rock8.9 miles19
Coats Crossroad9.0 miles13
Warren Crossroads10.0 miles15
Grannys Quarter (historical)10.4 miles19

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 Liberty HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27988780The 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 1246358. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.