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Pine Grove, South Carolina

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Goose Creek-Hanahan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29445. The Survey maps it on the Kittredge quadrangle.

Pine Grove within Berkeley County

On record in Pine Grove

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

223 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 223 fires within 5 miles of Pine Grove between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,166 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 42 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/undetermined91
Debris and open burning48
Arson/incendiarism42
Misuse of fire by a minor25
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Equipment and vehicle use4
Other causes1
Fireworks1
Natural1
Smoking1

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
2 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance25 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2011Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 2014Debris and open burningunder 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Pine Grove: 1 plant, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Contained or Metal, Iron. 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
C G Rowland ProspectIronProspect
Mount Holly Aluminum PlantAluminum, Contained or MetalPlant1980

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
Stokes (historical)1.8 miles12
Kittredge1.9 miles12
Holly Court2.2 miles19
Boulder Bluff2.4 miles19
Mount Holly2.5 miles19
Tarry Town2.6 miles12
Woodland Heights2.6 miles19
Beverly Hills3.0 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1230165. 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.