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Pleasant Hill, South Carolina

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Pleasant Hill-Folly Grove census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29554. The Survey maps it on the Outland quadrangle.

Pleasant Hill within Georgetown County

On record in Pleasant Hill

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

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

349 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 349 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,916 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 70 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 burning140
Missing data/not specified/undetermined103
Arson/incendiarism70
Equipment and vehicle use23
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Natural3
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
30 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2003Debris and open burning10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2000Debris and open burning6.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2011Other causes1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Georgetown County

Storms near this place

11 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pleasant Hill in 11 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2014Thunderstorm WindPleasant Hill$3,000Trees were reported down along Pleasant Hill Drive near the W T Owens Store.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindPleasant Hill$1,000A tree was reported down on Barnhill Road near the intersection with Mention Avenue.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindPleasant Hill-Tree reported down on Bullard Road near intersection with Pleasant Hill Drive.
February 2008Thunderstorm WindPleasant Hill-The Emergency Manager in Georgetown County surveyed damage in the Pleasant Hill community at the intersection of Bullard Road and Pleasant Hill Drive. Shingles were blown off of five homes. Several trees, as tall as sixty feet, were snapped and some were lying across roadways. One mobile home was pushed from its foundation. The damage was the result of straight-line winds estimated at up to 65 mph.
April 1998Thunderstorm WindPleasant Hill-Several trees down and a tin roof blown off barn...reported by Georgetown Co. EOC
July 1995Thunderstorm WindPleasant Hill-Trees down.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindPleasant Hill-Power lines down on Highway 513.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindPleasant Hill-,,,,,,,,Hail (0.5)
June 1998HailPleasant Hill-no account filed
March 1996Thunderstorm WindPleasant Hill-no account filed
July 1995HailPleasant Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Georgetown 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
Owens1.2 miles8
Barnhill1.5 miles8
Huggins Crossroads1.5 miles9
Rogers Crossroads1.6 miles9
Midway Crossroads2.5 miles9
Center Crossroads2.8 miles9
Carters Crossroads3.3 miles9
Miller Crossroads3.4 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1225543. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.