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Mayesville, South Carolina

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Sumter Northeast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29104. It stands on Long Branch. The Survey maps it on the Mayesville quadrangle. 548 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 138 feet above sea level.

Mayesville within Sumter County

On record in Mayesville

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

Mayesville fell from 731 to 548 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
2010731
2020548-183 (-25%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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

296 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 296 fires within 5 miles of Mayesville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,017 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 52 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/undetermined122
Debris and open burning109
Arson/incendiarism52
Equipment and vehicle use10
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1

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
5 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2000Arson/incendiarism3.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2001Arson/incendiarism9.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sumter County

Storms near this place

15 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mayesville in 15 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 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
November 2008Thunderstorm WindMayesville$10,000Black River Electric Coop reported large limbs and some powerlines down.
January 1995Thunderstorm WindMayesville$5,000,,,,,,,,Flooding Trees and power lines down, streets in low areas flooded.
September 2015Flash FloodMayesville$4,000Sumter County Dispatch reported flooding on Lafayette Street, Calhoun Road, and Broad Street. Several rural roads in the area were also flooded and temporarily closed.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindMayesville$2,000Post Office reported large limbs and a few trees down in the area of McKnight and Atkins roads.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindMayesville$2,000Public reported large limbs down and minor damage to a mobile home.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindMayesville-Public reported through social media that a couple of pecan trees were downed, two irrigation pivot systems overturned, damage to a roll up door, and a lot of wheat flattened near the Town of Mayesville.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindMayesville-SCDOT reported tree down near Mayesville. Exact location unknown. Time estimated.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindMayesville-Trees down on power lines near Mayesville.
April 2006HailMayesville-Post Office employee reported quarter size hail
April 2006Thunderstorm WindMayesville-County Hwy Dept reported tree down across road
May 2005Thunderstorm WindMayesville-Post Office reported large branches down in and around Mayesville.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindMayesville-Black River coop reported trees down on powerlines with power outages.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindMayesville-Electric coop reported trees down on powerlines with power outages.
August 2004Flash FloodMayesville-Heavy rains from Tropical Storm Gaston caused several rural roads to flood and be temporarilly closed in the eastern part of the county.
June 1996HailMayesville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sumter 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
Scottsville3.1 miles17
Shaws Crossroads4.2 miles16
Oswego4.4 miles16
Rocky Bluff Crossroads4.8 miles16
Lazy Acres Estates4.8 miles16
Geddie Gardens5.9 miles16
Ranchland Ranchettes5.9 miles16
Midland Acres6.1 miles16

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 MayesvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2032002The 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 1246570. 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.

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.