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Edisto, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Orangeburg West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29115. It stands on Caw Caw Swamp. The Survey maps it on the Cordova quadrangle. 2,058 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 220 feet above sea level.

Edisto within Orangeburg County

Population over time

2 figures

Edisto fell from 2,559 to 2,058 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
20102,559
20202,058-501 (-20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 18 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

460 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 460 fires within 5 miles of Edisto between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,299 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 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
Debris and open burning264
Missing data/not specified/undetermined94
Misuse of fire by a minor34
Smoking25
Equipment and vehicle use23
Arson/incendiarism14
Fireworks2
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orangeburg County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Edisto: 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Edisto Asphalt Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
No. 6 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Orangeburg 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
Riverdale0.1 miles18
Rivelon0.2 miles18
Haddock0.4 miles18
Beverly Hills0.5 miles18
Hillavista0.9 miles18
Edistone (historical)1.0 miles18
Moss Heights1.8 miles18
Scoville Woods2.0 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 EdistoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2187768The 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 1867519. 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.