Rose 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 29010. The Survey maps it on the Bishopville West quadrangle.

Rose 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 Bishopville West quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

278 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 278 fires within 5 miles of Rose Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,115 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 46 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	114
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	87
Arson/incendiarism	46
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Smoking	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Natural	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
6 September 2018	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2005	Debris and open burning	6.0 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
25 September 2007	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	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
Hammetts Crossroads	1.6 miles	16
Manville	2.1 miles	16
Ashwood	2.2 miles	16
McCabe (historical)	2.3 miles	16
Mechanicsville	2.8 miles	16
Spur	2.9 miles	16
Aman (historical)	3.4 miles	16
Woodrow	3.7 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1236951. 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.