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.
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
Hopewell Rosenwald Schoollisted 2010
Population over time
3 figuresClarks 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 376 | |
| 2010 | 381 | +5 (+1%) |
| 2020 | 289 | -92 (-24%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 24 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.
- 1892 USGS Mc Cormick quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1912 USGS Mc Cormick quadrangle1:125000
- 1920 USGS Clarks Hill quadrangle1:48000
- 1921 USGS Clarks Hill quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1941 USGS Clarks Hill quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1942 USGS Clarks Hill quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Clarks Hill quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1980 USGS Clark Hill Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
131 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 52 |
| Debris and open burning | 29 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 16 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Natural | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2002-COLUMBIA-004 |
| 3 September 1999 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 4.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 1999 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 September 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Dixie Mountain Serpentine Dep | Magnesite, Chromium | Past Producer | Surface |
Storms near this place
12 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarks Hill | $18,000 | Aiken 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 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarks Hill | $8,000 | EM reported trees down on Hwy 28 near Clarks Hill. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Clarks Hill | - | Quarter size hail reported at the Lake Thurmond Visitors Center. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarks Hill | - | NWS observation tower atop the Lake Thurmond Dam recorded a wind gust to 60 mph. |
| March 2010 | Hail | Clarks Hill | - | Public reported 1 inch hail on Pine Lane Road in southern McCormick County. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarks Hill | - | Post Office reported numerous trees down along hwy 28. |
| May 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarks Hill | - | Mesonet site at Clarks Hill recorded a 73mph gust. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarks Hill | - | Sheriff and Post Office reported trees down from Clarks Hill to Meriwether. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarks Hill | - | Sheriff reoprted a couple of trees down in Clarks Hill. |
| May 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Clarks Hill | - | An F0 tornado took down trees at Clarks Hill Recreation Area. |
| May 1998 | Hail | Clarks Hill | - | SKYWARN spotter reported nickel size hail. |
| April 1998 | Hail | Clarks Hill | - | Spotter reports dime size hail. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meriwether | 1.4 miles | 24 | |
| Woodlawn | 3.8 miles | 24 | |
| Modoc | 4.6 miles | 24 | |
| Parksville | 8.3 miles | 16 | |
| Bethany (historical) | 12.4 miles | 16 | |
| Parks Mill | 12.9 miles | 16 | |
| Whitetown | 13.1 miles | 16 | |
| Plum Branch | 13.1 miles | 16 |
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 Hill | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2517417 | 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 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.












