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Sugar Hill, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Reevesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29471. The Survey maps it on the Reevesville quadrangle.

Sugar Hill within Dorchester County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

399 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 399 fires within 5 miles of Sugar Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,129 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 76 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/undetermined146
Debris and open burning132
Arson/incendiarism76
Equipment and vehicle use18
Natural9
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Other causes1

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
7 September 1997Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dorchester 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 Sugar Hill: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
East Cooper MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Dorchester 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
Reevesville0.8 miles18
Dorange2.5 miles18
Badham2.9 miles18
Cattle Creek (historical)3.3 miles18
Hudsontown3.7 miles18
Old Saint George3.8 miles18
Mount Zion4.0 miles18
Saint George4.9 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1241225. 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.