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Hodges, South Carolina

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Ware Shoals-Hodges census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29653. The Survey maps it on the Cokesbury quadrangle. 162 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 699 feet above sea level.

Hodges within Greenwood County

Population over time

3 figures

Hodges grew from 158 to 162 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
2000158
2010155-3 (-2%)
2020162+7 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

218 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 218 fires within 5 miles of Hodges between 1992 and 2017, burning about 553 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined130
Debris and open burning50
Smoking10
Equipment and vehicle use9
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Arson/incendiarism7
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1
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
4 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greenwood County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hodges: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Kaolin. 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
Mrs. Mary Robinson PropertyAluminum, KaolinProspect

Every working recorded in Greenwood County

Storms near this place

14 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hodges in 14 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 7 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 tornado. 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
May 1998Tornado (F1)Hodges$75,000A weak tornado touched down near the Abbeville county line and moved east-southeast damaging some buildings, lifting a pick-up truck off the ground and lodging it in a tree, and killing goats and pigs. Hundreds of trees were downed in the Creekside subdivision.
March 2021Thunderstorm WindHodges$10,000Emergency mngr reported multiple trees blown down from Hodges to the east side of Greenwood. One tree was down on a house on Chestnut Ct.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindHodges-Spotter reported multiple large tree limbs blown down on Emerson St.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindHodges-County comms reported multiple trees and power lines blown down and a few shingles removed from the roof of a Fire Dept building.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindHodges-Law enforcement and spotters reported numerous trees blown down across the county. An NWS storm survey team picked up a slightly more intense downburst path from Ninety Six to the southern shores of Lake Greenwood. At least one tree fell on a moving vehicle near Ninety Six.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindHodges-Numerous trees were blown down throughout Greenwood County, with at least three trees on homes in the city of Greenwood.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindHodges-Quite a few trees blown down and some minor roof damage to homes along highway 25 north of Hodges.
April 2005HailHodges-Spotter also relayed non-specific report of large hail. Also non-specific report of large hail 3 SE Hodges along highway 25.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindHodges-Large tree limbs were blown onto roads.
March 2012HailHodges-no account filed
May 2009HailHodges-no account filed
March 2008HailHodges-no account filed
May 1998HailHodges-no account filed
June 1998HailHodges-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greenwood 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
Simmons1.9 miles13
Irving1.9 miles14
Cokesbury1.9 miles14
Tinsley2.7 miles13
Dalewood3.0 miles15
Downs Siding3.2 miles15
Hyde Park3.7 miles15
North Hills Estates3.9 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 HodgesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2844570The 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 1231390. 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.