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Arial, South Carolina

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Easley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29640. It stands on Arial Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Liberty quadrangle. 2,729 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,079 feet above sea level.

Arial within Pickens County

On record in Arial

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

3 figures

Arial grew from 2,607 to 2,729 between 2000 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
20002,607
20102,543-64 (-2%)
20202,729+186 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

284 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 284 fires within 5 miles of Arial between 1992 and 2020, burning about 566 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 24 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 burning102
Missing data/not specified/undetermined93
Misuse of fire by a minor31
Arson/incendiarism24
Equipment and vehicle use11
Smoking10
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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
8 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1998Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2017Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Smoking1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pickens County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Arial: 4 producers, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, 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
EasleyTitanium, IronUnknown
Farrs Bridge Road DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Liberty Beverly QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Beverly QuarryGranite, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducerMetamorphic
Liberty QuarryGranite, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer1908

Every working recorded in Pickens County

Storms near this place

8 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arial in 8 storm reports between 2009 and 2019: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. 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 2019HailArial-Public reported (via Social Media) penny to quarter size hail at Jameson Rd and Highway 183.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindArial-Highway patrol reported a tree blown down at Highway 183 and Cedar Rock Rd and multiple trees and power lines blown down along Ireland Rd.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindArial-FD reported multiple trees and power lines blown down at Store Road and Cedar Rock Church Road and a tree down on Ballentine St at Brushy Creek Rd in Easley.
April 2012HailArial-Nickel size hail from Montana Rd and Norte Vista Rd to highway 123 and North Dale Rd.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindArial-A tree was blown down on Cannery Rd near highway 135 with another blown down on Prince George Rd.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindArial-A tree was blown down at Scotland Rd and Bella Vista Dr in the Easley area. Several large branches were blown down in Easley as well.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindArial-A few large tree limbs were blown down and blocked traffic on West Roper Rd.
February 2009HailArial-Hail reported on Jameson Rd.

Every storm recorded in Pickens 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
Hillwood0.3 miles17
Monte Vista0.9 miles16
North Hills1.7 miles16
Cedar Rock1.9 miles17
Marshall Heights2.0 miles16
Holly Hill2.0 miles16
Burdine Springs2.2 miles16
Easley2.4 miles16

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 ArialAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2446442The 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 1253463. 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.