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Gayle Mill, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Chester census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29706. It stands on Tanyard Branch. The Survey maps it on the Chester quadrangle. 866 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 476 feet above sea level.

Gayle Mill within Chester County

Population over time

2 figures

Gayle Mill fell from 913 to 866 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
2010913
2020866-47 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

160 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 160 fires within 5 miles of Gayle Mill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 393 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined85
Debris and open burning42
Equipment and vehicle use9
Arson/incendiarism6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
8 September 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2019Smoking3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chester 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
Springwood Lakes1.1 miles13
Chester1.4 miles13
Rolling Hills Estates1.4 miles13
Cedar Grove1.5 miles13
Brooklyn1.5 miles13
Hilltop Acres2.2 miles13
York Terrace2.2 miles13
Eureka Mills2.5 miles13

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 Gayle MillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q429473The 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 1867522. 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.