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Andrews, South Carolina

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It lies in ZIP code area 29510. It stands on Johnsons Swamp. The Survey maps it on the Andrews quadrangle. 2,575 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 25 feet above sea level.

Andrews within Williamsburg County

Population over time

2 figures

Andrews fell from 2,861 to 2,575 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
20102,861
20202,575-286 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

396 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 396 fires within 5 miles of Andrews between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,079 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 106 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/undetermined126
Debris and open burning121
Arson/incendiarism106
Equipment and vehicle use14
Natural9
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Smoking7
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
5 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2001Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2009Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamsburg County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Andrews: 2 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zirconium. 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
M & T Chemicals/ Andrews, S.C.ZirconiumPlant
Warsaw PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
Warsaw PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Winyah Block Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Williamsburg County

Storms near this place

7 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Andrews in 7 storm reports between 1999 and 2014: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2006Thunderstorm WindAndrews$15,000Several large trees uprooted. One fell on a truck and a porch was shifted. Several pear trees were snapped.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindWest Andrews$1,500A large tree was reported down across County Line Road. The time was estimated based on radar data.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindWest Andrews$1,000A large tree reportedly fell across Highway 521 and closed the roadway.
June 2009HailAndrews-Hail up to the size of quarters was covering the patio.
June 2006HailAndrews-Penny size hail damaged crops in the town of Earle.
February 1999HailAndrews-Hail report from along US 521 in Williamsburg Co.
June 2006HailAndrews-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Williamsburg 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
Harper Crossroads1.1 miles9
Antioch2.7 miles9
Cherry Hill3.2 miles9
Warsaw4.0 miles8
Earle4.1 miles8
Cook Corner4.1 miles8
Oak Ridge4.9 miles8
Tisdale5.6 miles8

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 AndrewsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2666572The 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 1244882. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.