Spring Hill, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Cordesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29450. It stands on Negro Field Branch. The Survey maps it on the Huger quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Spring Hill within Berkeley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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.

1919 USGS Cordesville quadrangle1:48000, 2 printings
1949 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Huger quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1967 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

311 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 311 fires within 5 miles of Spring Hill (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 6,085 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 128 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
Arson/incendiarism	128
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	72
Debris and open burning	71
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Railroad operations and maintenance	11
Natural	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

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 1997	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	QUITTING TIME
18 September 1999	Power generation/transmission/distribution	5.0 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	HURRICANE
11 September 2019	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	POWERLINE
5 August 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	DRIVE BY
3 August 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	not named
3 August 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	not named
22 August 1995	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	GETRIM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkeley 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
Huger	1.2 miles	13
Limerick	2.0 miles	11
Kensington	2.8 miles	11
Conifer (historical)	2.8 miles	11
Burtons (historical)	3.9 miles	11
Witherbee	3.9 miles	11
Smith	4.0 miles	13
Old Joe	4.0 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1234632. 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.