Bucksport, South Carolina
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Conway census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29527. It stands on Nimrod Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bucksville quadrangle. 745 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBucksport fell from 876 to 745 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 876 | |
| 2020 | 745 | -131 (-15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1943 USGS Bucksville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1949 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Kingstree quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
122 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Bucksport between 1992 and 2020, burning about 917 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 25 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 burning | 44 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 39 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 25 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 August 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 August 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 1 August 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 July 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 July 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 July 2007 | Natural | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bucksport: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asphalt Products Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
11 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bucksport in 11 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 4 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2016 | Flash Flood | Bucksport | $750,000 | Boyne Drive, in the Cameron Village Community, was reported flooded. Numerous homes were impacted by the flood waters. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bucksport | $25,000 | A possible tornado could not be verified, but strong thunderstorm winds downed trees near the Intracoastal Waterway from Bucksport to Socastee. |
| September 2019 | Tornado (EF0) | Bucksport | $10,000 | A gentlemen living in a condo witnessed a funnel cloud briefly touchdown,|only minimal damage took place. Several fascia boards were torn off one|of the condos and two 24 oak trees were partially uprooted at the |beginning of the path. The trees did not completely fall over as they|were kept up at an angle by other larger hardwood trees. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Bucksport | $250 | Hail to the size of quarters was reported on E Sweetbriar Trail. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bucksport | - | A tree was reported down on Chamberlin Rd in Cypress River Plantation. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Bucksport | - | Hail fell from along Bay Road near Socastee. |
| December 2023 | Flash Flood | Bucksport | - | South Carolina Highway Patrol reports Bay Road flooded. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Bucksport | - | Quarter size hail was reported along highway US 701. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bucksport | - | Numerous power lines were down along US Hwy 701. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bucksport | - | Numerous large trees were reported down. Quarter size hail was also reported in the area. |
| July 1997 | Hail | Bucksport | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Port Harrelson (historical) | 1.4 miles | 9 | |
| Eddy Lake (historical) | 1.4 miles | 9 | |
| Klondike | 2.0 miles | 9 | |
| Enterprise Landing | 2.2 miles | 9 | |
| Peachtree Landing | 3.5 miles | 9 | |
| Longwood Landing | 4.2 miles | 11 | |
| Bucksville | 4.3 miles | 9 | |
| Burgess | 4.7 miles | 11 |
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 Bucksport | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2786037 | The 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 1231099. 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.




