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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.

Furman within Hampton County

Population over time

3 figures

Furman 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.

YearPeople Change
2000286
2010239-47 (-16%)
2020224-15 (-6%)

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

328 since 1992

Regional 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 burning133
Missing data/not specified/undetermined83
Arson/incendiarism63
Equipment and vehicle use17
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Natural13
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
4 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2006Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2014Naturalunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2019Debris 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

18 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2011Thunderstorm WindFurman$1,000Law enforcement reported a tree down and blocking both lanes of Cypress Creek Road.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindFurman$1,0002 trees down on Highway 601 near county line.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindFurman$500South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down on Highway 601 in Furman.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindFurman$500The Hampton County Emergency Manager reported a tree down on Savannah Highway near Furman, South Carolina.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindFurman-Hampton County dispatch reported a tree down along the 900 block of Furman Nixville Road.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindFurman-Hampton County dispatch reported a tree down near the intersection of Honey Hill Road and Steep Bottom Road.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindFurman-The South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down near the intersection of Scotia-Furman Highway and Irving Street.
January 2017Thunderstorm WindFurman-Hampton County Emergency Management reported several trees down along McKenzie Trail near Furman.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindFurman-South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down blocking the roadway on Steep Bottom Road near the intersection with Honey Hill Road.
June 2016Flash FloodFurman-The South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a roadway washout near the intersection of Town Hall Road and Highway 601.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindFurman-South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down and in the roadway near the intersection of Savannah Highway and Mt. Carmel Church Road.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindFurman-The South Carolina Department of Highways reported trees down along Stafford Road.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindFurman-Law enforcement reported trees down on Highway 601 South.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindFurman-Law enforcement reported a tree down on Highway 601 South before Bama Place.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindFurman-The Jasper County dispatch office reported one tree down along Rivers Hill Crossing.
May 2010HailFurman-The public reported quarter size hail at the Penny Branch Golf Course, 1 mile northeast of Furman, South Carolina.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindFurman-Thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree.
September 1998Thunderstorm WindFurman-Trees, large limbs and power lines down.

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
Stafford1.5 miles16
De Loach1.6 miles16
Steep Bottom (historical)1.6 miles16
Stokes2.9 miles16
Scotia2.9 miles16
Nixville4.6 miles16
Lena5.2 miles16
Estill5.8 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 FurmanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2056562The 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.