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Harleyville, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Harleyville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29448. The Survey maps it on the Harleyville quadrangle. 666 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 89 feet above sea level.

Harleyville within Dorchester County

On record in Harleyville

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 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Harleyville grew from 594 to 666 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
2000594
2010677+83 (+14%)
2020666-11 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

214 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 214 fires within 5 miles of Harleyville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,336 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 39 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 burning81
Missing data/not specified/undetermined79
Arson/incendiarism39
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking3
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2019Debris and open burning175 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dorchester County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Harleyville: 6 producers, 4 unknowns. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Clay, Cement Rock, Clay, Cement Rock. 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
Giant Portland Marl Pit(Harleyville Mine)Clay, Cement RockProducerSedimentary
Gifford Hill Marl Pit(Harleyville Quarry)Limestone, General, Cement RockProducerSedimentary
Holly Hill Quarry & Cement PlantStoneProducer
Santee Portland Limestone QuarryCement RockProducerSedimentary
Giant Clay PitClayUnknownSedimentary
Holly Hill MineClayUnknownSedimentary
Harleyville QuarryLimestone, GeneralUnknownSedimentary
Harleyville Quarry & Cement PlantLimestone, GeneralProducer
Harleyville Quarry & Cement PlantLimestone, GeneralProducer
Holly Hill QuarryLimestone, GeneralUnknownSedimentary

Every working recorded in Dorchester County

Storms near this place

38 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harleyville in 38 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 25 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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
July 2006Thunderstorm WindHarleyville1 hurt, $10,000Camper trailer blown over on 7 mile road.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindHarleyville$3,000The Harleyville Police Department reported six trees down and quarter inch hail in Harleyville, South Carolina.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindHarleyville$2,000Dorchester County Emergency Management provided pictures of wind damage near the 100 block of Mockingbird Drive. The pictures indicated one snapped tree with multiple large tree limbs down.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindHarleyville$2,000Trees and powerlines down near ballfield.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindHarleyville$1,000The South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down on I-26 eastbound near mile marker 179.
October 2011Thunderstorm WindHarleyville$1,000South Carolina Highway Patrol reported 1 tree down and in the roadway on Interstate 26 East near 2nd Bend Road.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindHarleyville$1,000The Dorchester County Warning Point reported a large tree blocking Seven Mile Road.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindHarleyville$500The public reported a tree limb blown down in Harleyville.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindHarleyville$500A state official reported a tree down on Shortcut Road.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindHarleyville$500Law enforcement reported a tree down along Interstate 26 at exit 177, one mile north of Harleyville, South Carolina.
September 2008Thunderstorm WindHarleyville$500Law Enforcement reported a tree down on Short Cut Road, 2 miles south-southwest of Harleyville, South Carolina.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindHarleyville-The Dorchester County Warning Point reported a tree down near the intersection of 2nd Bend Road and Addison Road.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindHarleyville-A spotter reported debris on Interstate 26 and in the air.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindHarleyville-Law enforcement reported a tree down on Interstate 26 near mile marker 181.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindHarleyville-The media reported a tree down on Johnson Road near Harleyville.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindHarleyville-Law enforcement reported a tree down near the intersection of Highway 178 and Bryant Road.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindHarleyville-Law enforcement reported a tree down near the intersection of Interstate 26 and South Carolina 453.
July 2014HailHarleyville-There were several reports of hail quarter sized or greater in Harleyville. The largest hail was estimated by the public to be ping pong ball sized, other reports were quarter sized from local law enforcement.
May 2012Flash FloodHarleyville-Water flooded into a residence at 129 Bowman Street from heavy rainfall.
May 2009HailHarleyville-A broadcast meteorologist traveling west bound on Interstate 95 near mile marker 179 observed penny size hail.
September 2008HailHarleyville-Law Enforcement reported nickel size hail in Harleyville, South Carolina.
July 2006HailHarleyville-Nickel hail at I-26 truck weigh station.
September 2004Tornado (F0)Harleyville-A small tornado knocked down trees and large limbs.
March 2002Thunderstorm WindHarleyville-Several trees and large limbs down.
October 2002Thunderstorm WindHarleyville-Several trees were down.
March 2001Thunderstorm WindHarleyville-Front porch torn off of a mobile home, one automobile damaged from pieces of the wood from the porch, underskirting damaged on 3 mobile homes and a few shingles taken off a house.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindHarleyville-Trees down.
April 1999Thunderstorm WindHarleyville-Trees down.
April 2006HailHarleyville-no account filed
May 2004HailHarleyville-no account filed
August 2002Flash FloodHarleyville-no account filed
August 2002Flash FloodHarleyville-no account filed
March 1999HailHarleyville-no account filed
April 1999HailHarleyville-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindHarleyville-no account filed
July 1997HailHarleyville-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindHarleyville-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindHarleyville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dorchester 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
Giant1.6 miles16
Pregnall4.1 miles16
Lincoln Green4.7 miles16
Byrd4.8 miles18
Rosinville5.0 miles18
Dorchester5.9 miles16
Saint George7.1 miles18
Mount Zion7.4 miles18

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 HarleyvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2158711The 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 1223038. 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.