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Carlisle, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Carlisle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29031. The Survey maps it on the Carlisle quadrangle. 321 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 451 feet above sea level.

Carlisle within Union County

On record in Carlisle

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Carlisle fell from 436 to 321 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
2010436
2020321-115 (-26%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

90 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Carlisle between 1992 and 2020, burning about 704 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined30
Debris and open burning24
Natural11
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
6 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2001Debris and open burning8.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2008Natural14 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 2001Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union County

Storms near this place

19 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carlisle in 19 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 3 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2024Thunderstorm WindCarlisle-County comms reported multiple trees blown down near Carlisle.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindCarlisle-Emergency manager reported trees blown down in the Carlisle area.
April 2017Tornado (EF0)Carlisle-NWS survey team reported a weak tornado touched down briefly, knocking down a few trees.
June 2016HailCarlisle-Post Office reported quarter size hail in Carlisle.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindCarlisle-Two trees were blown down in the Carlisle area.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindCarlisle-A tree was blown down on Santuc Dr near the CSXT railroad crossing |and another on highway 72 west of Carlisle.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindCarlisle-Trees were blown down in the Carlisle area.
November 2003Thunderstorm WindCarlisle-Some trees were blown down.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindCarlisle-Several trees were blown down.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindCarlisle-Two areas of trees down in and around Carlisle.
June 2001Tornado (F0)Carlisle-Several eyewitnesses reported a tornado touching down during a thunderstorm that was effectively stationary for at least 15 minutes. Path of the tornado was mostly through the woods. Fire departmentfound 2 large oak trees with broken limbs. NWS storm survey team received 5 images of the tornado. The tornado was a well-defined vortex descending from an apparent small wall cloud. Radar presentation displayed a small thunderstorm, or moderate to heavy rain shower, with only a 30,000 foot top.
June 2013HailCarlisle-no account filed
June 2004HailCarlisle-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindCarlisle-no account filed
June 1998Tornado (F1)Carlisle-no account filed
June 1998HailCarlisle-no account filed
June 1997HailCarlisle-no account filed
April 1997HailCarlisle-no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindCarlisle-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Union 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
Pride (historical)2.2 miles13
Red Point (historical)3.4 miles13
Ada (historical)3.9 miles12
Santuc4.3 miles12
Tuckertown4.8 miles13
Neal Shoals5.0 miles13
Red Town (historical)5.6 miles12
Beaver Dam5.7 miles12

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 CarlisleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q742898The 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 1247163. 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.