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Donalds, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Donalds census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29638. The Survey maps it on the Ware Shoals West quadrangle. 328 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 761 feet above sea level.

Donalds within Abbeville County

On record in Donalds

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

2 figures

Donalds fell from 348 to 328 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
2010348
2020328-20 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

266 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 266 fires within 5 miles of Donalds between 1992 and 2020, burning about 950 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 34 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/undetermined123
Debris and open burning75
Arson/incendiarism34
Equipment and vehicle use12
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Natural4
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1

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 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2020Debris and open burning10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2007Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Abbeville County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Donalds: 2 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Copper, Iron, Silver. 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
Saluda MineCopper, Iron, SilverProspect
Saluda MineCopperPast ProducerStratiform
UnknownCopperPast ProducerStratabound Discordant

Every working recorded in Abbeville County

Storms near this place

18 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Donalds in 18 storm reports between 1996 and 2013: 9 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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
July 1996LightningDonalds$50,000no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindDonalds$1,000Some power lines were blown down.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindDonalds-Numerous trees and large limbs were blown down throughout Abbeville County.
June 2013HailDonalds-Nickel size hail in a path from near Donalds to about 3 miles south southeast of town.
June 2013HailDonalds-Quarter size hail fell along Williamson Hill Rd, about 3.5 miles northeast of Donalds.
March 2012HailDonalds-Nickel size hail was reported on Robinson St in Donalds.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindDonalds-Several trees were blown down a little west of the town on Donalds.
March 2008Thunderstorm WindDonalds-A couple trees blown down in the Gunnells Rd/Highway 252 area.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindDonalds-Trees and power lines were blown down on Martin Rd and highway 178.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindDonalds-Two trees down. One fell on a power line on highway 184 near Donalds.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindDonalds-Trees were blown down.
April 2005Thunderstorm WindDonalds-no account filed
April 2005HailDonalds-no account filed
April 2005HailDonalds-no account filed
May 2005HailDonalds-no account filed
July 2005HailDonalds-no account filed
July 2002HailDonalds-no account filed
August 1997HailDonalds-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Abbeville 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
Foxville Crossroads1.1 miles13
Hammett (historical)1.4 miles13
Dann (historical)1.6 miles13
Drake1.9 miles13
Winona2.0 miles13
Boneo2.1 miles13
Vermillion2.5 miles13
Murray (historical)2.8 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 DonaldsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2206581The 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 1247536. 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.