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Shell Point, South Carolina

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Beaufort-Port Royal census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29906. It lies near Little Buzzard Island. The Survey maps it on the Beaufort quadrangle. 2,281 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 16 feet above sea level.

Shell Point within Beaufort County

Population over time

2 figures

Shell Point fell from 2,336 to 2,281 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
20102,336
20202,281-55 (-2%)

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

105 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Shell Point between 1992 and 2019, burning about 361 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 21 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 burning36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Arson/incendiarism21
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Fireworks2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
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
6 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 August 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 July 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 July 2006Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 July 1997Natural1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Dowlingwood0.2 miles19
Shell Point park0.4 miles19
Magnolia Bluff0.5 miles19
Green Pond0.6 miles19
Bon Aire0.9 miles19
Battery Marina Village0.9 miles19
Cherry Hill Estates1.5 miles19
Tanglewood1.6 miles19

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 Shell PointAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1992228The 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 1237378. 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.