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Nelson Hill, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Cross census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29436. It stands on Nelson Hill. The Survey maps it on the Cross quadrangle.

Nelson Hill within Berkeley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

Fires near this place

717 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 717 fires within 5 miles of Nelson Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,860 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 187 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/undetermined308
Arson/incendiarism187
Debris and open burning183
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Smoking9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural5
Other causes3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1

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
9 September 2018Natural1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2005Arson/incendiarism12 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2011Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2018Debris and open burning15 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkeley County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Nelson Hill: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Berkeley QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerSedimentary
Berkeley QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Berkeley 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
Cross Cross Roads0.5 miles18
Cross1.5 miles18
Moss Grove1.8 miles18
Chapel Hill (historical)2.1 miles18
Moss Pond (historical)2.2 miles18
Spring Plain (historical)2.4 miles18
Prioleau2.6 miles18
Corsada (historical)3.3 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1234352. 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.