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Seabrook Island, South Carolina

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Kiawah Island-Seabrook Island census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29455. It stands on Seabrook Island. The Survey maps it on the Rockville quadrangle. 2,050 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 16 feet above sea level.

Seabrook Island within Charleston County

Population over time

2 figures

Seabrook Island grew from 1,714 to 2,050 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,714
20202,050+336 (+20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

40 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Seabrook Island between 1992 and 2019, burning about 252 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined15
Debris and open burning14
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

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
9 September 1998Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 July 2007Natural4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use60 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 June 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 May 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 May 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charleston 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 Island: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Zirconium, Iron. 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
Edisto Island QuadrangleTitanium, Zirconium, IronUnknownPlacer , Modern , Beach

Every working recorded in Charleston 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
Camp Saint Christopher1.0 miles19
Rockville2.1 miles19
Rockland3.0 miles19
Oakgrove4.1 miles17
Kiawah Island5.0 miles22
Edisto Island5.9 miles18
Bears Bluff6.4 miles18
Steamboat Landing6.7 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.

Wikipedia article on Seabrook IslandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2618868The 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 1253570. 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.