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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1946 USGS Johnsonville quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Kingstree quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Brittons Neck quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
156 since 1992Regional 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/incendiarism | 51 |
| Debris and open burning | 48 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 43 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 September 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 11 September 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 August 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.5 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 August 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2004Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2012 | Hail | Red Hill | $1,000 | Quarter 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 2022 | Hail | Red Hill | - | Quarter size hail reported on Pee Dee Road, south of highway 378. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Red Hill | - | SC highway patrol reports tree down on road near the intersection of Pee Dee Highway and Hendricks Short Cut road. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Red Hill | - | A spotter reported quarter size hail near Black Water Middle School. |
| June 2004 | Hail | Red Hill | - | Horry county emergency manager reported penny size hail. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pages (historical) | 0.8 miles | 8 | |
| Rehobeth | 2.6 miles | 8 | |
| Aynor | 3.1 miles | 8 | |
| Dog Bluff | 3.7 miles | 8 | |
| Jonestown | 3.8 miles | 8 | |
| Gideon | 3.8 miles | 8 | |
| Galivants Ferry | 4.0 miles | 9 | |
| Jones Crossroads | 4.5 miles | 8 |
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 Q49363524 | The 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.





