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Catawba, South Carolina

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Rock Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29704. The Survey maps it on the Catawba quadrangle. 1,301 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 558 feet above sea level.

Catawba within York County

On record in Catawba

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Catawba fell from 1,343 to 1,301 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
20101,343
20201,301-42 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

Hawthorne House, Catawba River, Clover, York County, SC
Hawthorne House, Catawba River, Clover, York County, SC
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

140 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 140 fires within 5 miles of Catawba between 1992 and 2020, burning about 510 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined50
Debris and open burning45
Equipment and vehicle use15
Arson/incendiarism8
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Natural3
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
28 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2002Natural2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in York County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Catawba: 6 past producers, 3 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Mica. 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
Sericite Pit Number 1MicaUnknownMetamorphic
Unnamed Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknownIgneous
Ashe MineClayUnknownSedimentary
Ashe MineClayPast Producer
Faile MineClayProducer
John Barnette MineClayPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Lancaster MillClayPast Producer
Van Wyck MineClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Van Wyck MineClayProducer
Yoder #1(Yoder#2)ClayPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in York County

Storms near this place

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Catawba in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2019: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. 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 2002Thunderstorm WindCatawba$1,000Some trees and powerlines were blown down.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindCatawba-County comms reported multiple trees blown down in the southeastern portion of York County.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindCatawba-Several large tree limbs were blown down around Catawba.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindCatawba-A large section was torn off of a metal building at a paper plant. Several trees were also blown down in the area.
July 2003HailCatawba-no account filed
May 2003HailCatawba-no account filed
May 2003Thunderstorm WindCatawba-no account filed
May 2003HailCatawba-no account filed
June 1998HailCatawba-no account filed

Every storm recorded in York 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
Roddey1.8 miles12
Harmony2.5 miles12
Leslie Woods3.3 miles15
Lesslie3.5 miles15
Yorkdale3.8 miles15
Ravenwood4.1 miles15
Spring Valley4.1 miles15
Friendship4.7 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 CatawbaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4247098The 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 1249459. 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.