Furman, South Carolina
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Furman-Scotia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29921. The Survey maps it on the Furman quadrangle. 224 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 115 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresFurman fell from 286 to 224 between 2000 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 286 | |
| 2010 | 239 | -47 (-16%) |
| 2020 | 224 | -15 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 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.
- 1919 USGS Pineland quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1943 USGS Pineland quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Sylvania quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Furman quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
328 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 328 fires within 5 miles of Furman between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,378 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 63 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 | 133 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 83 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 63 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 17 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 13 |
| Natural | 13 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 2014 | Natural | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
18 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Furman in 18 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 16 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Furman | $1,000 | Law enforcement reported a tree down and blocking both lanes of Cypress Creek Road. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Furman | $1,000 | 2 trees down on Highway 601 near county line. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Furman | $500 | South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down on Highway 601 in Furman. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Furman | $500 | The Hampton County Emergency Manager reported a tree down on Savannah Highway near Furman, South Carolina. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Furman | - | Hampton County dispatch reported a tree down along the 900 block of Furman Nixville Road. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Furman | - | Hampton County dispatch reported a tree down near the intersection of Honey Hill Road and Steep Bottom Road. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Furman | - | The South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down near the intersection of Scotia-Furman Highway and Irving Street. |
| January 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Furman | - | Hampton County Emergency Management reported several trees down along McKenzie Trail near Furman. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Furman | - | South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down blocking the roadway on Steep Bottom Road near the intersection with Honey Hill Road. |
| June 2016 | Flash Flood | Furman | - | The South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a roadway washout near the intersection of Town Hall Road and Highway 601. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Furman | - | South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down and in the roadway near the intersection of Savannah Highway and Mt. Carmel Church Road. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Furman | - | The South Carolina Department of Highways reported trees down along Stafford Road. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Furman | - | Law enforcement reported trees down on Highway 601 South. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Furman | - | Law enforcement reported a tree down on Highway 601 South before Bama Place. |
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Furman | - | The Jasper County dispatch office reported one tree down along Rivers Hill Crossing. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Furman | - | The public reported quarter size hail at the Penny Branch Golf Course, 1 mile northeast of Furman, South Carolina. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Furman | - | Thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree. |
| September 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Furman | - | Trees, large limbs and power lines down. |
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.
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 Furman | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2056562 | 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 1247850. 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.








