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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.

Elko within Barnwell County

Population over time

2 figures

Elko 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.

YearPeople Change
2010193
2020140-53 (-27%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

174 since 1992

Regional 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 burning67
Missing data/not specified/undetermined60
Equipment and vehicle use18
Arson/incendiarism9
Natural9
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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
7 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2017Debris and open burning7.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barnwell County

Storms near this place

14 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2013Thunderstorm WindElko$4,000Sheriff reported trees down on Ferrells Mill Road.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindElko$2,000Highway Patrol reported trees down at Williston Way and Deering Road.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindElko$2,000DOT reported several trees down in the vicinity of ELKO.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindElko$1,000Sheriff reported large tree limbs down on US 78 near Reynolds road.
May 2020HailElko-EM reported nickel size hail in the town of Elko. Time estimated.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindElko-Several trees down in the town of Elko. Time estimated.
October 2016Heavy RainElko-Storm Total Rainfall (approx. 12 hours) reported of 10.75 inches.
July 2013HailElko-Dispatch reported 1 inch hail.
July 2010HailElko-Spotter reported penny size hail in the Elko area.
March 2008Tornado (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 2008Thunderstorm WindElko-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 2005HailElko-Elko Grocery reported quarter size hail.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindElko-Post Office reported trees down.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindElko-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Barnwell 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
Williston2.6 miles16
Reynold2.8 miles16
Farrells Mill3.2 miles16
Long Branch4.0 miles16
Walker4.7 miles15
Healing Springs5.7 miles15
Blackville6.0 miles16
Whaley6.0 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 ElkoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1985119The 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.