May Hilltop, South Carolina

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Lake View census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29563. It stands on Hayes Branch. The Survey maps it on the Lake View quadrangle.

May Hilltop within Dillon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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 Pages Mill quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Fair Bluff quadrangle1:62500
1962 USGS Lake View quadrangle1:24000
1976 USGS Lake View quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Florence quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

220 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 220 fires within 5 miles of May Hilltop between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,321 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 52 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	75
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	57
Arson/incendiarism	52
Equipment and vehicle use	28
Recreation and ceremony	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Natural	2

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 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2018	Debris and open burning	20 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dillon 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
Kemper	1.3 miles	9
Squires	1.7 miles	9
High Hill Crossroads	1.8 miles	9
Hayestown	2.7 miles	6
Lake View	3.5 miles	9
Fork	3.6 miles	6
Pittman Corner	5.0 miles	6
Oliver Crossroads	5.2 miles	9

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.

Wikidata item Q122566042

The 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 1246567. 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.