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Clarks Hill, South Carolina

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Parksville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29821. It stands on Buzzard Branch. The Survey maps it on the Clarks Hill quadrangle. 289 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 466 feet above sea level.

Clarks Hill within McCormick County

On record in Clarks Hill

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

3 figures

Clarks Hill fell from 376 to 289 between 2000 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
2000376
2010381+5 (+1%)
2020289-92 (-24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 24 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

131 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 131 fires within 5 miles of Clarks Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 556 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined52
Debris and open burning29
Railroad operations and maintenance16
Arson/incendiarism8
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Natural2

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
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-COLUMBIA-004
3 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McCormick County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Clarks Hill: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Magnesite, Chromium. 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
The Dixie Mountain Serpentine DepMagnesite, ChromiumPast ProducerSurface

Every working recorded in McCormick County

Storms near this place

12 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clarks Hill in 12 storm reports between 1998 and 2017: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 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 2011Thunderstorm WindClarks Hill$18,000Aiken Standard reported trees down in Clarks Hill Park from the storms. One tree fell on a camper destroying it and just missing the occupants.
October 2011Thunderstorm WindClarks Hill$8,000EM reported trees down on Hwy 28 near Clarks Hill.
May 2017HailClarks Hill-Quarter size hail reported at the Lake Thurmond Visitors Center.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindClarks Hill-NWS observation tower atop the Lake Thurmond Dam recorded a wind gust to 60 mph.
March 2010HailClarks Hill-Public reported 1 inch hail on Pine Lane Road in southern McCormick County.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindClarks Hill-Post Office reported numerous trees down along hwy 28.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindClarks Hill-Mesonet site at Clarks Hill recorded a 73mph gust.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindClarks Hill-Sheriff and Post Office reported trees down from Clarks Hill to Meriwether.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindClarks Hill-Sheriff reoprted a couple of trees down in Clarks Hill.
May 1998Tornado (F0)Clarks Hill-An F0 tornado took down trees at Clarks Hill Recreation Area.
May 1998HailClarks Hill-SKYWARN spotter reported nickel size hail.
April 1998HailClarks Hill-Spotter reports dime size hail.

Every storm recorded in McCormick 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
Meriwether1.4 miles24
Woodlawn3.8 miles24
Modoc4.6 miles24
Parksville8.3 miles16
Bethany (historical)12.4 miles16
Parks Mill12.9 miles16
Whitetown13.1 miles16
Plum Branch13.1 miles16

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 Clarks HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2517417The 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 1231173. 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.