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Seabrook, South Carolina

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Beaufort-Port Royal census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29940. It stands on Haulover Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sheldon quadrangle. 1,255 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 16 feet above sea level.

Seabrook within Beaufort County

On record in Seabrook

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

263 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 263 fires within 5 miles of Seabrook between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,158 acres in total. None started naturally. 84 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/undetermined88
Arson/incendiarism84
Debris and open burning82
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
17 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 July 2007Debris and open burning4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 June 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth 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

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Seabrook: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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
Coosawhatchee Region DepositsPhosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Fluorine-FluoritePast Producer1963

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
Coosaw1.2 miles19
Lobeco2.1 miles18
Grays Hill2.7 miles19
Fairview4.0 miles19
Dale4.5 miles18
Pinewood4.5 miles15
Irongate4.7 miles15
Capehart Housing Project4.9 miles15

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.

Wikipedia article on SeabrookAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7440219The 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 1226472. 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.