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Calhoun Falls, South Carolina

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Calhoun Falls census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29628. The Survey maps it on the Calhoun Falls quadrangle. 1,727 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 528 feet above sea level.

Calhoun Falls within Abbeville County

Population over time

2 figures

Calhoun Falls fell from 2,004 to 1,727 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
20102,004
20201,727-277 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Bridge, Spanning Savannah River, Calhoun Falls, Abbeville County, SC
Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Bridge, Spanning Savannah River, Calhoun Falls, Abbeville County, SC
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

107 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Calhoun Falls between 1992 and 2020, burning about 465 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined41
Debris and open burning20
Equipment and vehicle use13
Arson/incendiarism8
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Natural6
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 1997Equipment and vehicle use4.6 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2017Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2002Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Abbeville County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Calhoun Falls: 1 plant, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Calhoun FallsTitanium, IronUnknownOutcrop Exposure
Dravo-Groves Rock Processing PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Richard B. Russell Dam Project QuarStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Abbeville County

Storms near this place

37 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Calhoun Falls in 37 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 19 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 3 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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
June 1994Thunderstorm WindCalhoun Falls$50,000no account filed
October 2015Heavy RainCalhoun Falls$25,000County comms reported the combination of saturated soils due to heavy rainfall and winds gusting in excess of 20 mph caused a large oak tree to fall on the back section of a house in Calhoun Falls.
November 2003Tornado (F0)Calhoun Falls$20,000This weak tornado blew down numerous trees and power lines along its intermittent 15-mile track. One telephone pole was snapped. In Abbeville, a large tree limb fell and tore a hole in the roof of a home, causing extensive damage.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindCalhoun Falls$10,000County comms reported multiple trees and power lines blown down in the Calhoun Falls area. Media also reported roof damage to a church.
May 2003Tornado (F0)Calhoun Falls$1,000This weak tornado knocked down a few trees and power lines before dissipating.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindCalhoun Falls$1,000Some trees and powerlines were blown down.
February 1995Thunderstorm WindCalhoun Falls$1,000no account filed
August 2023Thunderstorm WindCalhoun Falls-Emergency manager reported five trees blown down in and around Calhoun Falls.
May 2021HailCalhoun Falls-Co-op observer reported ping pong ball size hail near Calhoun Falls.
July 2013Flash FloodCalhoun Falls-Seneca Street in Calhoun Falls was flooded by a creek.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindCalhoun Falls-Numerous trees were blown down across the county. The wind was not directly associated with a thunderstorm over the county, but was the result of an outflow boundary from a storm complex over the Midlands and east central Georgia.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindCalhoun Falls-Multiple trees were blown down throughout Calhoun Falls and along highghway 81 south.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindCalhoun Falls-Multiple trees were blown down in the Calhoun Falls area.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindCalhoun Falls-Several trees were blown down in the Calhoun Falls area, with at least one tree on a home. Trees and limbs were blown down across the reminder of the county as well.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindCalhoun Falls-Several trees blown down on Anderson St.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindCalhoun Falls-Numerous trees down and light structural damage in and around Calhoun Falls.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindCalhoun Falls-Trees blown down just outside of town.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindCalhoun Falls-Some trees were blown down along Rocky River Plant Rd.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindCalhoun Falls-Some trees were blown down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindCalhoun Falls-A few small trees were blown down.
December 2000Tornado (F0)Calhoun Falls-A short-lived tornado shook a house and tore off a satellite dish near Calhoun Falls.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindCalhoun Falls-Late night/early morning severe thunderstorms blew down trees and power lines in a number of locations. Heavy rain caused some localized urban flood problems.
March 2010HailCalhoun Falls-no account filed
April 2010HailCalhoun Falls-no account filed
April 2009HailCalhoun Falls-no account filed
March 2008HailCalhoun Falls-no account filed
May 2006HailCalhoun Falls-no account filed
December 2005HailCalhoun Falls-no account filed
December 2005HailCalhoun Falls-no account filed
May 2003HailCalhoun Falls-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindCalhoun Falls-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindCalhoun Falls-no account filed
May 1998HailCalhoun Falls-no account filed
June 1998HailCalhoun Falls-no account filed
April 1998HailCalhoun Falls-no account filed
April 1997HailCalhoun Falls-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindCalhoun Falls-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Abbeville 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
Hester1.6 miles14
Millwood (historical)2.5 miles14
Latimer2.7 miles12
Dresden (historical)3.4 miles14
Chesnut Hill (historical)5.1 miles14
Rocky River (historical)5.6 miles14
Monterey (historical)6.0 miles12
Charleston Crossroads6.0 miles13

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 Calhoun FallsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2483637The 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 1247089. 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.