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Chesnee, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Chesnee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29323. It stands on Ezell Branch. The Survey maps it on the Chesnee quadrangle. 829 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 892 feet above sea level.

Chesnee within Spartanburg County

Population over time

2 figures

Chesnee fell from 868 to 829 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
2010868
2020829-39 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

2 photographs, 1937

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.

Sharecropper wife and mother of seven children. Near Chesnee, South Carolina
Sharecropper wife and mother of seven children. Near Chesnee, South Carolina
Lange, Dorothea, photographer, 1937. Library of Congress
Sharecropper boy near Chesnee, South Carolina
Sharecropper boy near Chesnee, South Carolina
Lange, Dorothea, photographer, 1937. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

189 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 189 fires within 5 miles of Chesnee between 1992 and 2020, burning about 666 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 19 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/undetermined62
Debris and open burning62
Arson/incendiarism19
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Smoking12
Equipment and vehicle use12
Natural2
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
4 September 2010Smokingunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2005Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreNorth Carolina Forest ServiceCHOO CHOO FIRE
21 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNorth Carolina Forest ServicePAINTER RD
2 September 2019Other causesunder an acreNorth Carolina Forest ServiceJACK MCKENNEY RD
2 September 2015Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2002Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spartanburg County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Chesnee: 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Kyanite, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Cliffside-Elkin Kyn Belt DepositKyaniteOccurrenceMetamorphic
Cowpens Battlefield Bog-Iron MineIronUnknownBog Iron Limonite
Rutherford County Dredge and PSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed Granite QuarryGranite, Stone, Crushed/BrokenUnknownMetamorphic

Every working recorded in Spartanburg County

Storms near this place

26 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chesnee in 26 storm reports between 1997 and 2019: 14 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 1 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
April 1998Thunderstorm WindChesnee$50,000no account filed
April 2019Thunderstorm WindChesnee-County comms reported a few trees blown down in the Chesnee area.
October 2017Thunderstorm WindChesnee-Ham radio operator reported multiple trees blown down in the area around the intersection of Highway 221 and Thompson Rd.
June 2014HailChesnee-Spotter reported up to golf ball size hail near Chesnee.
May 2014HailChesnee-FD reported 3/4 inch hail.
May 2014HailChesnee-Public reported pea to quarter size hail that fell for a couple of minutes near Chesnee.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindChesnee-Highway Patrol reported a couple of trees blown down along River Oak Rd.
May 2014HailChesnee-Public reported nickel size hail near Mayo.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindChesnee-Numerous large limbs blown down and blocking roads in the Chesnee area. At least two trees fell on houses in Chesnee. Highway Patrol reported at least a dozen trees blown down from the Chesnee area, across Boiling Springs and north Spartanburg, to Reidville. NWS employee reported multiple trees and numerous large limbs down centered in the area near Blackstock Rd and Hidden Hill Rd.
June 2011HailChesnee-Dime to nickel size hail fell on the north side of Chesnee.
June 2011HailChesnee-Penny to quarter size hail fell at Alabama Ave.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindChesnee-Large tree limbs were blown down.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindChesnee-Several trees and large limbs were blown down.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindChesnee-Several trees were blown down in and around Chesnee.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindChesnee-Five trees blown down across the northern part of the county.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindChesnee-Two power poles blown down on Anderson Rd and trees blown down on highway 11 near Brooklyn Church Rd.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindChesnee-Two pine trees blown down.
July 2005Tornado (F0)Chesnee-This tornado touched down in far northern Spartanburg County, just south of the North Carolina border, blowing down several trees before tracking northeast into North Carolina.
November 2003Thunderstorm WindChesnee-Some trees were blown down.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindChesnee-State trooper reported trees down along U.S. 221.
July 2008HailChesnee-no account filed
June 2006HailChesnee-no account filed
May 2006HailChesnee-no account filed
July 2005HailChesnee-no account filed
February 1998HailChesnee-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindChesnee-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Spartanburg 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
Arrowwood1.8 miles15
Mayo Mills4.0 miles14
Brooklyn4.1 miles15
Springdale Estates4.4 miles14
Mayo4.4 miles14
Cooley Springs4.7 miles15
Mountain View5.6 miles13
Fosters Grove6.2 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 ChesneeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q367602The 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 1221550. 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.