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Sea Pines Circle, South Carolina

18 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. The Survey maps it on the Bluffton quadrangle.

Sea Pines Circle within Beaufort County

On record in Sea Pines Circle

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

24 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Sea Pines Circle between 1992 and 2011, burning about 94 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined17
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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
23 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 June 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 June 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 May 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 May 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 April 1999Smoking10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 April 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 April 2010Debris and open burning6.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot 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 Sea Pines Circle: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gumtree Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Hilton Head IslandZirconium, Titanium, ThoriumUnknownPlacer-Modern-Fluvial
Hilton Head Island DepositREE, Zirconium, TitaniumPast Producer1879

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Shipyard Plantation0.6 miles17
Wexford Plantation0.6 miles18
Long Cove Plantation1.0 miles17
Forest Beach1.1 miles17
Bay Pines1.3 miles18
Point Comfort1.4 miles18
Opossum Point Landing1.5 miles18
Point Comfort Woods1.6 miles18

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 Q122597418The 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 1237368. 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.