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Jonesville, South Carolina

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Jonesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29353. The Survey maps it on the Jonesville quadrangle. 852 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 686 feet above sea level.

Jonesville within Union County

On record in Jonesville

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Jonesville fell from 911 to 852 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
2010911
2020852-59 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

153 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 153 fires within 5 miles of Jonesville between 1992 and 2018, burning about 386 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined73
Debris and open burning50
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural5
Arson/incendiarism5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking3
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
6 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Smoking1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2006Naturalunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 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 Union 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 Jonesville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. 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
No. 1 MineClayProducer

Every working recorded in Union County

Storms near this place

37 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jonesville in 37 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 22 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 1 lightning, 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
July 2001LightningJonesville$50,000Lightning struck a garage business, destroying the building and a motorcycle located inside.
June 1994HailJonesville$50,000A massive severe thunderstorm moved south from the Shelby, NC, area into northern Cherokee County and moved slowly across the county. This was a major hail storm with golf ball- to baseball-size hail falling for more than an hour. The largest hail, and the most damage, seemed to occur in the area from south of Gaffney to Jonesville. Up to five inches of rain fell causing localized urban flooding - though none was reported to reach flash flooding levels. Some trees were blown down although the main impact was hail and rain.
March 2005Thunderstorm WindJonesville$20,000A boat was overturned and blown 20 feet in a lot along highway 9 North of Union. Two other boats were lifted and dropped at the same location. In Adamsburg, 2 tool sheds were flattened and a carport damaged by the wind. Several trees were also blown down at the same location.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindJonesville$5,000The roof was blown off of a mobile home.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindJonesville$1,000EM and public reported multiple large tree limbs and a few trees blown down, mainly cross the north side of Jonesville, including the Gilead Hills Dr area. A couple of outbuildings also had some tin roofing removed.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindJonesville-Emergency manager reported trees blown down in the Jonesville area.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindJonesville-County comms reported numerous trees and some power lines blown down between Jonesville and Union.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindJonesville-County comms reported a tree and a power lines blown down in the Jonesville area.
January 2014Thunderstorm WindJonesville-Multiple trees were blown down across the county, some on power lines.
May 2014HailJonesville-FD reported pea to quarter size hail west of Jonesville.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindJonesville-Several trees were blown down in the Jonesville area.
March 2008Thunderstorm WindJonesville-Several trees and power lines blown down between Jonesville and Lockhart.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindJonesville-Trees were blown down on T Bishop Rd near Jonesville with several trees down on highway 9 between Jonesville and Lockhart.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindJonesville-Two trees blown down.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindJonesville-Quite a few trees down and minor roof damage to a home in Jonesville.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindJonesville-Large limbs down on Jerusalem Rd and along Peter Hawk Rd, just east of highway 114.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindJonesville-Trees were blown down.
August 2003Flash FloodJonesville-Very heavy rainfall resulted in flooding along several creeks across the county.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindJonesville-Several large trees were blown down, and siding was torn from a house.
July 2009HailJonesville-no account filed
March 2008HailJonesville-no account filed
January 2006HailJonesville-no account filed
March 2002HailJonesville-no account filed
May 2000HailJonesville-no account filed
May 1999HailJonesville-no account filed
June 1998HailJonesville-no account filed
June 1998HailJonesville-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindJonesville-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindJonesville-no account filed
February 1997Thunderstorm WindJonesville-no account filed
March 1997HailJonesville-no account filed
June 1997HailJonesville-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindJonesville-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindJonesville-no account filed
May 1996HailJonesville-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindJonesville-no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindJonesville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Union 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
Lockhart Junction1.9 miles12
Mean Crossroads3.3 miles12
Humphriesville (historical)4.1 miles12
Meansville (historical)4.4 miles14
Bonham4.5 miles12
Kelly4.7 miles12
Kennedy Mill4.8 miles14
Flat Rock (historical)4.9 miles12

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 JonesvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3239709The 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 1246204. 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.