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.
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
Hillsidelisted 1978
Woodland Plantationlisted 2001
Population over time
2 figuresCarlisle 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 436 | |
| 2020 | 321 | -115 (-26%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1941 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Carlisle quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
90 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 30 |
| Debris and open burning | 24 |
| Natural | 11 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 September 2001 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | 8.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 1 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 1 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 August 2008 | Natural | 14 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 August 2002 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 August 2001 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
19 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carlisle | - | County comms reported multiple trees blown down near Carlisle. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carlisle | - | Emergency manager reported trees blown down in the Carlisle area. |
| April 2017 | Tornado (EF0) | Carlisle | - | NWS survey team reported a weak tornado touched down briefly, knocking down a few trees. |
| June 2016 | Hail | Carlisle | - | Post Office reported quarter size hail in Carlisle. |
| January 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carlisle | - | Two trees were blown down in the Carlisle area. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carlisle | - | A tree was blown down on Santuc Dr near the CSXT railroad crossing |and another on highway 72 west of Carlisle. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carlisle | - | Trees were blown down in the Carlisle area. |
| November 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carlisle | - | Some trees were blown down. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carlisle | - | Several trees were blown down. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carlisle | - | Two areas of trees down in and around Carlisle. |
| June 2001 | Tornado (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 2013 | Hail | Carlisle | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Carlisle | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carlisle | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Tornado (F1) | Carlisle | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Carlisle | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Carlisle | - | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Hail | Carlisle | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carlisle | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pride (historical) | 2.2 miles | 13 | |
| Red Point (historical) | 3.4 miles | 13 | |
| Ada (historical) | 3.9 miles | 12 | |
| Santuc | 4.3 miles | 12 | |
| Tuckertown | 4.8 miles | 13 | |
| Neal Shoals | 5.0 miles | 13 | |
| Red Town (historical) | 5.6 miles | 12 | |
| Beaver Dam | 5.7 miles | 12 |
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 Carlisle | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q742898 | 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 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.






