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Fountain Inn, South Carolina

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Fountain Inn census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29644. The Survey maps it on the Fountain Inn quadrangle. 10,416 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 866 feet above sea level.

Fountain Inn within Greenville County

On record in Fountain Inn

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 9 records

Population over time

2 figures

Fountain Inn grew from 7,799 to 10,416 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
20107,799
202010,416+2,617 (+34%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

106 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Fountain Inn between 1992 and 2020, burning about 268 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined43
Debris and open burning35
Arson/incendiarism10
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1

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 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2010Debris and open burning1.3 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.6 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2002Arson/incendiarism15 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greenville 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 Fountain Inn: 1 unknown, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Mica. 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
Coke Cooper ProspectMicaProspect
Fountain Inn ProspectGoldUnknownVein

Every working recorded in Greenville County

Storms near this place

26 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fountain Inn in 26 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 13 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 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
June 1995Thunderstorm WindFountain Inn$50,000no account filed
September 2004Flash FloodFountain Inn$20,000Flooding developed quickly across Greenville County during mid-evening. Numerous automobiles were stranded in water in the southern and eastern parts of the county. Flash flooding occurred around Fork Shoals, along highway 25 south of Greenville, and along Jones Mill Rd east of Fountain Inn. Gilder Creek flooded from Mauldin downstream to the Enoree River. Water from the flooded creek covered a bridge at E Georgia Rd.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindFountain Inn$3,000Multiple trees blown down, with at least 1 tree on a house.
May 2023HailFountain Inn-Ham radio operator reported quarter size hail in the Fountain Inn area.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindFountain Inn-NWS co-op observer reported minor damage to a garage door and multiple large tree limbs blown down near the intersection of Highways 651 and 418.
January 2014Flash FloodFountain Inn-Farmwood Drive was flooded by Payne Branch, cutting off three houses.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindFountain Inn-A tree and power lines were blown down near the intersection of Nash Mill Rd and Tall Pines Rd.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindFountain Inn-A large tree was blown down on power lines on Gulliver St in Fountain Inn.
March 2008Thunderstorm WindFountain Inn-Trees uprooted on Abercrombie Rd.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindFountain Inn-Two power poles blown down near the intersection of I-385 and Fairview St.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindFountain Inn-Several large tree limbs blown down on Terry Rd.
September 2002Flash FloodFountain Inn-Overflowing creeks caused flooding of roads and bridges. Rescues from vehicles were required around Ashmore Bridge Rd, Neely Ferry Rd, and nearby sections. Some homes were also flooded in Simpsonville.
May 2012HailFountain Inn-no account filed
July 2012HailFountain Inn-no account filed
June 2009HailFountain Inn-no account filed
June 2007HailFountain Inn-no account filed
May 2002HailFountain Inn-no account filed
July 2002HailFountain Inn-no account filed
April 1999HailFountain Inn-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindFountain Inn-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindFountain Inn-no account filed
May 1998HailFountain Inn-no account filed
April 1998HailFountain Inn-no account filed
April 1998HailFountain Inn-no account filed
March 1997HailFountain Inn-no account filed
May 1995HailFountain Inn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greenville 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
Gaylords Crossroads3.6 miles8
Powderhorn3.7 miles8
Poinsettia3.9 miles8
The Cedars4.2 miles8
Hunters Woods4.2 miles10
Brentwood4.5 miles10
Westwood South4.5 miles10
Simpsonville4.5 miles10

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 Fountain InnAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3243550The 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 1222514. 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.