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Red Hill, South Carolina

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Aynor census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29544. It stands on Savannah Creek. The Survey maps it on the Brittons Neck quadrangle.

Red Hill within Horry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

156 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 156 fires within 5 miles of Red Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,589 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 51 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
Arson/incendiarism51
Debris and open burning48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined43
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural3
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
28 September 1998Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2010Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2003Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Horry County

Storms near this place

5 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Red Hill in 5 storm reports between 2004 and 2022: 4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
March 2012HailRed Hill$1,000Quarter size hail and a little larger was reported at the intersection of Pee Dee Highway and Hendricks Shortcut Road. The hail lasted for 8 minutes.
April 2022HailRed Hill-Quarter size hail reported on Pee Dee Road, south of highway 378.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindRed Hill-SC highway patrol reports tree down on road near the intersection of Pee Dee Highway and Hendricks Short Cut road.
June 2020HailRed Hill-A spotter reported quarter size hail near Black Water Middle School.
June 2004HailRed Hill-Horry county emergency manager reported penny size hail.

Every storm recorded in Horry 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
Pages (historical)0.8 miles8
Rehobeth2.6 miles8
Aynor3.1 miles8
Dog Bluff3.7 miles8
Jonestown3.8 miles8
Gideon3.8 miles8
Galivants Ferry4.0 miles9
Jones Crossroads4.5 miles8

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q49363524The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231708. 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.