Red Hill, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Ashwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29128. The Survey maps it on the Spring Hill quadrangle.

Red Hill within Lee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

1941 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Ashwood quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1960 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Camden quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Camden South quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Spring Hill quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

323 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 323 fires within 5 miles of Red Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,992 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 26 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 burning	139
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	101
Arson/incendiarism	26
Equipment and vehicle use	23
Misuse of fire by a minor	12
Smoking	7
Natural	6
Other causes	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Fireworks	2
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
7 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2018	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2003	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee 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
Spring Hill	1.9 miles	16
Rose Hill	4.6 miles	16
Woodrow	5.4 miles	16
Browntown	5.5 miles	16
Hammetts Crossroads	5.6 miles	16
Manville	5.8 miles	16
Spur	6.0 miles	16
McCutchen (historical)	6.3 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1225783. 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.