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Estill, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Estill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29918. It stands on Filly Branch. The Survey maps it on the Gifford quadrangle. 1,821 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 112 feet above sea level.

Estill within Hampton County

On record in Estill

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Estill fell from 2,040 to 1,821 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
20102,040
20201,821-219 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

298 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 298 fires within 5 miles of Estill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 930 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 66 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 burning115
Missing data/not specified/undetermined83
Arson/incendiarism66
Equipment and vehicle use15
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Natural5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

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 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2006Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2019Debris and open burning10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2005Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hampton County

Storms near this place

23 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Estill in 23 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 19 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 2012Thunderstorm WindEstill$15,000The Hampton County warning point reported trees and powerlines were blown down throughout the city of Estill. Some streets impacted by fallen trees include 3rd Street...Wyman Blvd...Applebee Street and Morrison Avenue South. The entire city was without power.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindEstill$5,000Law Enforcement reported trees down along Highway 601 in Estill, South Carolina.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindEstill$5,000Power lines down near intersection of Highway 321 and 5th St. in Estill.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindEstill$5,000Power outages.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindEstill$4,000A trained weather spotter reported several trees of small to medium size down near Estill, South Carolina.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindEstill$2,000Trees were reported down in Estill, South Carolina.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindEstill$1,500A spotter reported a tree down on a power line .2 mile south of Estill.
October 2011Thunderstorm WindEstill$500Law enforcement reported 1 tree down on Highway 3 in Estill, South Carolina.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindEstill$500One tree was reported down across a road in Estill, South Carolina.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindEstill-The Hampton County 911 Call Center reported multiple trees down along Highway 321 just outside of Estill.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindEstill-Hampton County dispatch reported several trees down west of Estill. This includes Harper Road, Orangeburg Road, Nixville Road, and Matthews Bluff.
May 2020HailEstill-The public reported baseball sized hail at the corner of 4th Street and Lawton Avenue in Estill. The report was relayed via pictures on social media.
March 2019Thunderstorm WindEstill-South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down on Old Orangeburg Road near Goodwill Road.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindEstill-Law enforcement reported several trees blown down on roadways around Estill, including Lawton Avenue, Daily Road and Third Street.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindEstill-An emergency manager relayed a report of two large trees down on Lawton Avenue.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindEstill-Hampton County dispatch reported multiple trees down along Columbia Highway near Estill.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindEstill-The Hampton County 911 Call Center reported a large tree limb down at 3rd Street and Catherine Street.
July 2013Flash FloodEstill-Five roads in Estill were reported closed due to flash flooding.
April 2005Thunderstorm WindEstill-Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees. Nickel size hail fell near Estill.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindEstill-Trees reported down on Hopewell Rd.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindEstill-Powerlines down.
May 2006HailEstill-no account filed
June 2000HailEstill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hampton 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
Lena1.4 miles16
Lawtonville Crossroads1.5 miles15
Luray4.1 miles16
Steep Bottom (historical)4.4 miles16
Peeples (historical)4.5 miles15
Valentine4.8 miles15
Nixville4.8 miles16
Scotia5.1 miles16

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 EstillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2662972The 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 1222302. 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.