Port Royal Plantation, South Carolina

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Hilton Head Island census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29928. It stands on Fish Haul Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hilton Head quadrangle.

Port Royal Plantation within Beaufort County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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 Hilton Head quadrangle1:62500
1945 USGS Hilton Head quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Hilton Head 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

24 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Port Royal Plantation between 1992 and 2019, burning about 124 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined	13
Debris and open burning	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Natural	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
3 June 1999	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 June 2019	Natural	20 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 June 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
14 June 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 May 2002	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 May 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 April 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 April 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Beaufort County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Port Royal Plantation: 2 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zirconium, Titanium, Thorium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, REE, Zirconium, Titanium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Gumtree Road Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Hilton Head Island	Zirconium, Titanium, Thorium	Unknown	Placer-Modern-Fluvial
Hilton Head Island Deposit	REE, Zirconium, Titanium	Past Producer	1879

Every working 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
Grasslawn Beach	0.8 miles	17
Folly Field	1.6 miles	17
Wood Lake	1.8 miles	17
Gator Field	1.9 miles	17
Palmetto Hall Plantation	2.0 miles	17
Hickory Forest	2.3 miles	17
Bram Landing	2.9 miles	17
Hilton Head Plantation	3.3 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1228034. 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.