Nautical Watch Villas, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the St. Helena Island census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29920. It stands on Ward Creek. The Survey maps it on the Saint Helena Sound quadrangle.

Nautical Watch Villas 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 St. Helena Sound quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS St. Helena Sound quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS St. Helena Sound quadrangle1:24000, 4 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

19 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Nautical Watch Villas between 1994 and 2016, burning about 61 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning	7
Arson/incendiarism	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
6 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 July 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
22 July 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 June 2004	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 June 2011	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
27 June 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
18 June 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	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
Cedar Reef Villas	0.2 miles	18
Frogmore	7.5 miles	16
Dataw Island	7.9 miles	16
Ashdale	10.3 miles	16
Morgan River Estates	10.4 miles	19
Wilkins	10.5 miles	16
Scott	10.7 miles	18
Longwood	10.8 miles	18

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 Q122567079

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 1237287. 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.