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Fingerville, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Fingerville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29349. It stands on Obed Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fingerville West quadrangle. 174 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 889 feet above sea level.

Fingerville within Spartanburg County

Population over time

2 figures

Fingerville grew from 134 to 174 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
2010134
2020174+40 (+30%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

151 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 151 fires within 5 miles of Fingerville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 533 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined65
Debris and open burning49
Arson/incendiarism12
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Smoking4
Other causes3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution20 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2016Debris and open burning1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution1.2 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2018Naturalunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2007Smokingunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2002Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spartanburg County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Fingerville: 3 prospects, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Mica, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand. 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
E W. Foster ProspectMicaProspect
Mcmillan MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
North Pacolet River MineSandUnknownSedimentary
Avery ProspectIronProspect
Senia ProspectIronProspect

Every working recorded in Spartanburg County

Storms near this place

18 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fingerville in 18 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 heavy rain, 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 2021Flash FloodFingerville$1,000County comms reported multiple roads were inundated from a combination of poor drainage and small stream flooding after 4 to 7 inches of rain fell over extreme northeast Spartanburg County in just a couple of hours.
September 2025HailFingerville-Public reported nickel to quarter size hail near the Lake Bowen dam.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindFingerville-Public reported three trees split near Lake Bowen dam.
May 2022HailFingerville-Spotter reported up to quarter size hail partially covering the ground near Peachtree Rd.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindFingerville-County comms reported multiple trees and power lines blown down in the Fingerville area.
March 2017HailFingerville-Spotter relayed report of quarter size hail.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindFingerville-Highway patrol reported a tree blown down at River Oak Rd and Mud Creek Rd and another tree down at Highway 11 and Parris Bridge Rd.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindFingerville-County comms reported multiple trees blown down on River Bend Rd and Rainbow Lake Rd near Fingerville. Highway Patrol reported a tree blown down at Sugar Ridge Rd and Clark Rd in Boiling Springs.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindFingerville-FD reported a tree blown down on Old Melvin Hill Rd (4.5 WNW) and another tree down on power lines in the Cooley Springs area (3 E).
May 2013Heavy RainFingerville-A vehicle was stuck in 1 foot of water on Cannon Ford Road off of Highway 11.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindFingerville-Trees were blown down on power lines.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindFingerville-A tree was blown down at Ghost Valley Rd and Rainbow Lake Rd. Additional trees|and power lines were downed on Lake Rainbow Rd inside the city limits.
November 2010Thunderstorm WindFingerville-Trees were blown down in the Fingerville area.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindFingerville-Several large tree limbs blown down and a storage building overturned.
July 2002HailFingerville-Hail was reported from Fingerville to Lake Bowen.
December 2005HailFingerville-no account filed
May 2004HailFingerville-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindFingerville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Spartanburg 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
Brown Arrow1.6 miles15
Bryants Store (historical)1.9 miles15
New Prospect2.0 miles15
Clark Estates2.3 miles15
River Oaks2.4 miles15
Little Africa2.5 miles15
River Oak Ranchettes3.1 miles15
Cooley Springs3.1 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 FingervilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5450302The 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 1231283. 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.

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.