Elko, South Carolina
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Williston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29826. The Survey maps it on the Williston quadrangle. 140 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 338 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresElko fell from 193 to 140 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 193 | |
| 2020 | 140 | -53 (-27%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 16 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.
- 1923 USGS Williston quadrangle1:48000
- 1927 USGS Williston quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Williston quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Williston quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Barnwell quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
174 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 174 fires within 5 miles of Elko between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,061 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 9 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 burning | 67 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 60 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 18 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 7.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 September 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 14 September 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
14 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elko in 14 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elko | $4,000 | Sheriff reported trees down on Ferrells Mill Road. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elko | $2,000 | Highway Patrol reported trees down at Williston Way and Deering Road. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elko | $2,000 | DOT reported several trees down in the vicinity of ELKO. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elko | $1,000 | Sheriff reported large tree limbs down on US 78 near Reynolds road. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Elko | - | EM reported nickel size hail in the town of Elko. Time estimated. |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elko | - | Several trees down in the town of Elko. Time estimated. |
| October 2016 | Heavy Rain | Elko | - | Storm Total Rainfall (approx. 12 hours) reported of 10.75 inches. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Elko | - | Dispatch reported 1 inch hail. |
| July 2010 | Hail | Elko | - | Spotter reported penny size hail in the Elko area. |
| March 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Elko | - | Storm survey found another brief touchdown of the supercell tornado along Bromitch Lane just north of hwy 78. Many trees down with convergent pattern. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elko | - | Williston Sentinel Newspaper reported trees down, a high school scoreboard damaged, some minor damage to a few buildings and a shed damaged in the Williston and Elko areas. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Elko | - | Elko Grocery reported quarter size hail. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elko | - | Post Office reported trees down. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elko | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Williston | 2.6 miles | 16 | |
| Reynold | 2.8 miles | 16 | |
| Farrells Mill | 3.2 miles | 16 | |
| Long Branch | 4.0 miles | 16 | |
| Walker | 4.7 miles | 15 | |
| Healing Springs | 5.7 miles | 15 | |
| Blackville | 6.0 miles | 16 | |
| Whaley | 6.0 miles | 15 |
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 Elko | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1985119 | 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 1247656. 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.









