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Gantt, South Carolina

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Greenville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29605. The Survey maps it on the Greenville quadrangle. 15,006 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 981 feet above sea level.

Gantt within Greenville County

Population over time

3 figures

Gantt grew from 13,962 to 15,006 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
200013,962
201014,229+267 (+2%)
202015,006+777 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

97 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Gantt between 1992 and 2018, burning about 367 acres in total. None started naturally. 18 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/undetermined40
Arson/incendiarism18
Debris and open burning15
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Other causes3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2

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
4 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2009Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth 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

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Gantt: 4 prospects, 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Aluminum. 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
Edgcomb Steel--Greenville, S.C.Iron, AluminumProducer
Vulcan Materials Co. S. QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
B E Woodson ProspectMicaProspect
Boling MineMicaPast Producer
R S Berry ProspectMicaProspect
W F Holloway & J J Brown ProspectsMicaProspect
Will Cleveland ProspectMicaProspect

Every working recorded in Greenville County

Storms near this place

16 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gantt in 16 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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 2020Thunderstorm WindEast Gantt$250,000Emergency manager and NWS employee reported numerous trees blown down in the area centered around the Greenville Country Club. Multiple homes were damaged by fallen trees.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindEast Gantt$10,000Highway department reported a tree blown down on Pine Creek Dr. Public reported (via Social Media) another tree down on a home on Fargo St in Mauldin.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindEast Gantt-Public reported trees blown down at Kennedy Dr and Daisy Dr, and trees down on power lines and causing an outage on Douglas Dr.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindEast Gantt-Highway Patrol reported trees blown down and blocking a portion of I-85 near mile marker 47.
June 2017HailGantt-Public reported quarter size hail in the Gantt community of south Greenville.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindGantt-Highway Patrol reported a tree blown down on Grove Rd (4 SSW downtown Greenville) and another tree down at I-85 and I-185 (5 SSW).
July 2013Thunderstorm WindEast Gantt-A couple trees were blown down on Mauldin Rd.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindEast Gantt-Trees were blown down on Jacobs Rd and South Fairfield Rd a few miles south of Greenville.
June 2013Heavy RainEast Gantt-Deep ponding of water was impeding traffic at the intersection of I-85 and Laurens Road.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindEast Gantt-A tree was blown down on Pine Creek Ct and another on Pine Creek Rd at Williamsburg Dr.
July 2012HailEast Gantt-Pea to penny size hail was reported on Tallulah Dr.
March 2012HailGantt-Penny size hail fell near the intersection of I-85 and White Horse Rd. A spotter also reported penny size hail at the intersection of I-85 and highway 276.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindGantt-Trees were blown down on Creek Shore Dr.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindEast Gantt-Several trees were blown down along Rock Creek Dr and surrounding areas. One tree fell on a home.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindGantt-Public reported an area of significant wind damage, with numerous trees snapped off and uprooted along Faris Rd near Greenville Memorial Hospital, extending east to Sunset Dr and Augusta St.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindEast Gantt-Trees were blown down along Fairmont Dr in the Gantt community.

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
Biltmore0.6 miles14
Glendale0.9 miles14
Staunton Heights0.9 miles14
Chestnut Hills1.0 miles14
Supreme Forest1.0 miles14
Elizabeth Heights1.1 miles14
Cutler Ridge1.2 miles14
West Gantt1.2 miles14

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 GanttAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2656638The 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 1222636. 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.