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Blackville, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Blackville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29817. The Survey maps it on the Blackville quadrangle. 1,923 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 292 feet above sea level.

Blackville within Barnwell County

Population over time

2 figures

Blackville fell from 2,406 to 1,923 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
20102,406
20201,923-483 (-20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

198 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 198 fires within 5 miles of Blackville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,531 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 14 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 burning73
Missing data/not specified/undetermined69
Equipment and vehicle use28
Arson/incendiarism14
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking2
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 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2019Smokingunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1997Debris and open burning4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barnwell County

Storms near this place

28 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blackville in 28 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 21 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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
June 2000Thunderstorm WindBlackville1 hurtEOC reported trees down on homes.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindBlackville$46,000Sheriff reported numerous trees down in the towns of Blackville and Barnwell. Some trees fell through an outbuilding and into a garage apartment on Hagood Ave. in Barnwell.
February 2003LightningBlackville$30,000A mobile home was destroyed by a fire started by a lightning strike.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindBlackville$18,000Edisto Electric reported powerlines down across much of northern Barnwell county.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindBlackville$15,000Police report tree down on car. Many other large branches down in area.
November 2011Thunderstorm WindBlackville$6,000Sheriff reported trees down in the Blackville area.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindBlackville$4,000DOT reported trees down near Blackville on secondary roads.
May 2009Flash FloodBlackville$4,000Sheriff reported flooding on several roads in and around Blackville with 1 to 3 feet of water.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindBlackville$3,000Sheriff reported a couple of trees down in Blackville.
January 2023Thunderstorm WindBlackville-EM reported a mobile home blown off of its foundation on Nick St, trapping a woman inside. No injuries. A tin roof was also damaged in this vicinity. Time estimated.
January 2023Thunderstorm WindBlackville-A National Weather Service Survey Team confirmed a microburst just west-southwest|of the Town of Blackville in Barnwell County. The microburst produced winds up to 90|mph and was associated with a strong line of convection that moved across the|region during the late morning hours of January 4th. The damage occurred on the|property of the Clemson University Edisto Research facility. The microburst initially|overturned and damaged a pivot irrigation system and damaged one of the three guide |wire supports to a 50 foot tower along Pleasant Home Road. The damage continued|northeast where a cluster of trees were uprooted along the southeast side of a road|that traverses a dam along Toby Creek. The microburst continued northeast and|produced damage to a cluster of trees near a small cemetery. Approximately a half|dozen hardwood trees from oaks to cedars were uprooted. There was one hardwood|tree that was snapped and a small cedar tree that was snapped near the top at this|location. Just before the microburst ended it downed two power poles. There was no|apparent damage as the path neared U.S. Highway 78, Dexter Street. The length of|the event was just over 1 mile and the width of the damage was approximately 50|yards.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindBlackville-Numerous trees were downed in the Blackville area. Time estimated.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindBlackville-Multiple trees were downed in and around Blackville. Time estimated.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindBlackville-Barnwell County Dispatch reported trees down on Dexter Street.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindBlackville-Barnwell Co dispatch reported trees down on power lines on Hwy 304 outside of Blackville.
May 2012HailBlackville-Blackville police reported quarter size hail in town.
May 2008HailBlackville-Police reported nickel size hail.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindBlackville-Sheriff reported several trees down along highway 3 and secondary roads.
June 2006HailBlackville-Public reported nickel to quarter size hail at Barnwell State Park.
June 2005HailBlackville-Post Office reported penny size hail beginning to cover the ground.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindBlackville-Emergency manager reported trees down on hwy 3 north of town.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindBlackville-Sheriff reported numerous trees down.
September 1999Thunderstorm WindBlackville-Sheriff reported several trees down between Blackville and Hilda.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindBlackville-EPD reported trees on houses all around Blackville. Roofs torn off two mobile homes.
June 1998HailBlackville-EDP reported nickel size hail.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindBlackville-Highway department reported trees down on SC highway 3.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindBlackville-Trees down in Blackvile.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindBlackville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Barnwell 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
Rosemary (historical)1.2 miles15
Healing Springs2.5 miles15
Reynold3.2 miles16
Walker4.1 miles15
Farrells Mill4.5 miles16
Ashleigh4.7 miles16
Whaley5.9 miles15
Hilda6.0 miles15

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 BlackvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2464650The 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 1246909. 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.

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.