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New Hope, South Carolina

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Goose Creek-Hanahan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29486. It stands on Smith Branch. The Survey maps it on the Summerville quadrangle.

New Hope within Berkeley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

544 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 544 fires within 5 miles of New Hope between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,253 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 146 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/undetermined205
Arson/incendiarism146
Debris and open burning142
Misuse of fire by a minor21
Equipment and vehicle use12
Natural6
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony1
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
4 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2014Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2017Debris and open burning4.1 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth 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

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of New Hope: 3 unknowns, 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand. 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
BerkeleySandUnknownSedimentary
Dorchester Brick Clay PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Kenyon Mine EastClayUnknownSedimentary
Kenyon Mine EastClayPast Producer
Kenyon Mine WestClayUnknownSedimentary
Kenyon Mine WestClayPast Producer
Salisbury MineClayProducer

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
Washington Town0.8 miles19
Sandy Run (historical)1.9 miles18
Lebanon2.8 miles18
Black Tom (historical)2.8 miles18
Long Ridge2.9 miles18
Wassamassaw (historical)3.3 miles18
Pine Forest4.5 miles19
Tramway4.6 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1234566. 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.