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Honea Path, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Honea Path census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29654. The Survey maps it on the Honea Path quadrangle. 3,686 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 791 feet above sea level.

Honea Path within Anderson County

On record in Honea Path

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

2 figures

Honea Path grew from 3,597 to 3,686 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
20103,597
20203,686+89 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

165 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 165 fires within 5 miles of Honea Path between 1992 and 2020, burning about 633 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 26 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/undetermined62
Debris and open burning49
Arson/incendiarism26
Equipment and vehicle use9
Smoking8
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Natural2
Fireworks1
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 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2020Debris and open burning10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2007Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2005Debris and open burning1.2 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 1999Debris and open burning1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Anderson County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Honea Path: 2 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Copper, Iron, Silver, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite. 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
Lakeside QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, GraniteProducerMetamorphic
Saluda MineCopper, Iron, SilverProspect
Welborn ProspectMicaProspect
Saluda MineCopperPast ProducerStratiform
UnknownCopperPast ProducerStratabound Discordant

Every working recorded in Anderson County

Storms near this place

25 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Honea Path in 25 storm reports between 1997 and 2017: 15 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 tornado, 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
February 1997Tornado (F1)Honea Path$30,000no account filed
April 2017Tornado (EF0)Honea Path$1,000NWS Storm survey found a small area of tornado damage within a wider swatch of less intense downburst damage. The tornado briefly touched down off Brook St on the southwest side of honea path. Numerous trees were blown down, while a patio and carport structure were also damaged.
April 2005Thunderstorm WindHonea Path$1,000Several trees blown down and shingles off a roof.
October 2017Thunderstorm WindHonea Path-Public reported trees blown down on Will Hanks Rd. Also a report of minor structural damage in this area.
January 2014Flash FloodHonea Path-Pea Creek came up again, flooding and closing James Cox Road for a second time during the day.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindHonea Path-Multiple large tree limbs were blown down along Sauer Farm Rd.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindHonea Path-Several trees were blown down along Austin Rd.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindHonea Path-Several large tree limbs were blown down.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindHonea Path-A few trees were blown down to the north of the town of Honea Path.
March 2008Thunderstorm WindHonea Path-Large tree limbs snapped.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindHonea Path-A tree was blown down on Austin Rd and another tree was blown down on highway 20 in the Craytonville community.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindHonea Path-A few trees blown down across the city.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindHonea Path-Large tree limbs were blown down onto highway 76.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindHonea Path-Several trees were blown down.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindHonea Path-Large tree limbs were blown down.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindHonea Path-Some trees were blown down.
June 2013HailHonea Path-no account filed
March 2012HailHonea Path-no account filed
April 2011HailHonea Path-no account filed
June 2010HailHonea Path-no account filed
March 2008HailHonea Path-no account filed
April 2006HailHonea Path-no account filed
February 2000Thunderstorm WindHonea Path-no account filed
May 1998HailHonea Path-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindHonea Path-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Anderson 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
Burris2.9 miles13
Friendship3.6 miles13
Dosheno3.9 miles13
High Point4.8 miles13
Craytonville4.9 miles13
Saylors Crossroads6.9 miles13
Belton7.6 miles9
Toney Creek7.6 miles9

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 Honea PathAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2906432The 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 1246035. 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.