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Due West, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Due West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29639. The Survey maps it on the Due West quadrangle. 1,219 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 699 feet above sea level.

Due West within Abbeville County

On record in Due West

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Due West fell from 1,247 to 1,219 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
20101,247
20201,219-28 (-2%)

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

239 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 239 fires within 5 miles of Due West between 1992 and 2019, burning about 714 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 49 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/undetermined78
Debris and open burning71
Arson/incendiarism49
Equipment and vehicle use15
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Natural6
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1
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
9 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use21 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2007Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Abbeville County

Storms near this place

24 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Due West in 24 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 15 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 3 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
May 1998Tornado (F0)Due West$30,000A weak short-lived tornado downed numerous large trees and blew a carport off house, and underpinning off a trailer.
July 2005Tornado (F1)Due West$10,000Tornado track near highway 185 northwest of Due West. Damage was mainly confined to numerous trees that were blown down along the three-quarter mile path. However, one home did receive some roof damage.
July 1997Tornado (F0)Due West$2,000no account filed
March 2002Thunderstorm WindDue West$1,000A couple of trees were reported blown down around Due West, and several trees were blown down in Donalds.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindDue West-County comms reported a few trees blown down around Due West.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindDue West-Law enforcement reported a few trees and large limbs blown down along with tin ripped off one or two outbuildings between Honea Path and Due West.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindDue West-NWS employee reported multiple large tree limbs snapped.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindDue West-County comms reported a few trees blown down from near Highway 20 to Winona Church Rd.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindDue West-Several trees and tree limbs were blown down in the Due West area.
June 2011HailDue West-Penny size hail was reported at highway 20 and Willie Kay Rd.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindDue West-Trees were blown down, with some trees falling on cars, from the Due West area, along hwy 184 to Donalds. Other trees were blown down along highway 178 in the Donalds area.
March 2008Thunderstorm WindDue West-A tree down in Donalds and another tree down on highway 201 south of Due West.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindDue West-Several limbs up to 4 inches in diameter blown down.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindDue West-Two trees blown down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindDue West-Some trees were blown down.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindDue West-A couple of trees were blown down and a pontoon boat was blown off a trailer.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindDue West-Some trees were blown down.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindDue West-Trees were blown down across state highway 185.
August 2009HailDue West-no account filed
March 2008HailDue West-no account filed
June 2007HailDue West-no account filed
March 2003HailDue West-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindDue West-no account filed
May 1998HailDue West-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
The Hook (historical)1.9 miles13
Drake1.9 miles13
Winona2.3 miles13
Arborville3.6 miles13
Boneo3.6 miles13
Donalds3.7 miles13
Hammett (historical)3.9 miles13
West View4.0 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 Due WestAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3100242The 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 1247568. 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.

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.