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Cokesbury, South Carolina

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Ware Shoals-Hodges census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29653. The Survey maps it on the Cokesbury quadrangle. 212 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 633 feet above sea level.

Cokesbury within Greenwood County

On record in Cokesbury

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

Cokesbury fell from 279 to 212 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
2000279
2010215-64 (-23%)
2020212-3 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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

238 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 238 fires within 5 miles of Cokesbury between 1992 and 2019, burning about 597 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined141
Debris and open burning45
Equipment and vehicle use14
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Arson/incendiarism10
Smoking10
Natural4
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1
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
4 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2005Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greenwood County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Cokesbury: 2 producers, 1 unknown, 1 prospect, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Aluminum, Kaolin, Vermiculite. 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
Maddens-KernalsVermiculitePast ProducerMetamorphosed Igneous Intrusion
Mrs. Mary Robinson PropertyAluminum, KaolinProspect
Greenwood Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknownMetamorphic
Greenwood QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Wilson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerIgneous Intrusion

Every working recorded in Greenwood County

Storms near this place

13 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cokesbury in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 9 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
February 1997Thunderstorm WindCokesbury$10,000no account filed
February 1998HailCokesbury$5,000no account filed
September 2023Thunderstorm WindCokesbury-Utility company and highway patrol reported multiple trees and large limbs blown down on power lines in the Cokesbury area.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindCokesbury-DOT reported a tree blown down at Highway 246 and Townsend Rd near Hodges. Highway Patrol reported trees down on E Cambridge Ave, N Main St, and Bailey Circle in the city of Greenwood.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindCokesbury-Numerous trees were blown down from the Hodges and Cokesbury area south to near Greenwood. The hardest hit areas were in the vicinity Clifton St, Pope St, Deadfall Rd, and Carlton St. Two trees fell on and damaged homes on Carlton St. Numerous power outages also occurred.
December 2009Thunderstorm WindCokesbury-Several trees were blown down near the intersection of highways 254, 246 and 25, about 8 miles west northwest of the city of Greenwood.
December 2008Thunderstorm WindCokesbury-A tree was blown down on highway 254 between Hodges and Cokesbury.
March 2008Thunderstorm WindCokesbury-Trees blown down.
May 2011HailCokesbury-no account filed
March 2008HailCokesbury-no account filed
July 2000HailCokesbury-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindCokesbury-no account filed
February 1998Thunderstorm WindCokesbury-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greenwood 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
Hodges1.9 miles14
Irving2.0 miles14
North Hills Estates2.4 miles14
Roman Acres2.7 miles14
Northfall Acres3.0 miles15
Dalewood3.0 miles15
Downs Siding3.1 miles15
Hyde Park3.3 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 CokesburyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1931839The 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 1247334. 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.