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.
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
Catawba Rosenwald Schoollisted 2013
Population over time
2 figuresCatawba 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,343 | |
| 2020 | 1,301 | -42 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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
- 1968 USGS Catawba quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
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.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
140 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 50 |
| Debris and open burning | 45 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 15 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 7 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 1998 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 September 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 14 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 11 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 11 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 10 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 August 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 August 2002 | Natural | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 11 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sericite Pit Number 1 | Mica | Unknown | Metamorphic | |
| Unnamed Granite Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | Igneous | |
| Ashe Mine | Clay | Unknown | Sedimentary | |
| Ashe Mine | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Faile Mine | Clay | Producer | ||
| John Barnette Mine | Clay | Past Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments | |
| Lancaster Mill | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Van Wyck Mine | Clay | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Van Wyck Mine | Clay | Producer | ||
| Yoder #1(Yoder#2) | Clay | Past Producer | Sedimentary |
Storms near this place
9 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Catawba | $1,000 | Some trees and powerlines were blown down. |
| October 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Catawba | - | County comms reported multiple trees blown down in the southeastern portion of York County. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Catawba | - | Several large tree limbs were blown down around Catawba. |
| April 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Catawba | - | A large section was torn off of a metal building at a paper plant. Several trees were also blown down in the area. |
| July 2003 | Hail | Catawba | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Catawba | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Catawba | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Catawba | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Catawba | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roddey | 1.8 miles | 12 | |
| Harmony | 2.5 miles | 12 | |
| Leslie Woods | 3.3 miles | 15 | |
| Lesslie | 3.5 miles | 15 | |
| Yorkdale | 3.8 miles | 15 | |
| Ravenwood | 4.1 miles | 15 | |
| Spring Valley | 4.1 miles | 15 | |
| Friendship | 4.7 miles | 15 |
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 Catawba | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4247098 | 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 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.






