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.
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
Goodwill Parochial Schoollisted 1997
Mayesville Historic Districtlisted 1979
Population over time
2 figuresMayesville 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 731 | |
| 2020 | 548 | -183 (-25%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1920 USGS Mayesville quadrangle1:48000
- 1921 USGS Mayesville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1943 USGS Mayesville quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Mayesville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Sumter quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Sumter quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
296 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 122 |
| Debris and open burning | 109 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 52 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.5 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 9.5 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
15 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mayesville | $10,000 | Black River Electric Coop reported large limbs and some powerlines down. |
| January 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mayesville | $5,000 | ,,,,,,,,Flooding Trees and power lines down, streets in low areas flooded. |
| September 2015 | Flash Flood | Mayesville | $4,000 | Sumter 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 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mayesville | $2,000 | Post Office reported large limbs and a few trees down in the area of McKnight and Atkins roads. |
| September 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mayesville | $2,000 | Public reported large limbs down and minor damage to a mobile home. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mayesville | - | 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 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mayesville | - | SCDOT reported tree down near Mayesville. Exact location unknown. Time estimated. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mayesville | - | Trees down on power lines near Mayesville. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Mayesville | - | Post Office employee reported quarter size hail |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mayesville | - | County Hwy Dept reported tree down across road |
| May 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mayesville | - | Post Office reported large branches down in and around Mayesville. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mayesville | - | Black River coop reported trees down on powerlines with power outages. |
| May 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mayesville | - | Electric coop reported trees down on powerlines with power outages. |
| August 2004 | Flash Flood | Mayesville | - | Heavy rains from Tropical Storm Gaston caused several rural roads to flood and be temporarilly closed in the eastern part of the county. |
| June 1996 | Hail | Mayesville | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scottsville | 3.1 miles | 17 | |
| Shaws Crossroads | 4.2 miles | 16 | |
| Oswego | 4.4 miles | 16 | |
| Rocky Bluff Crossroads | 4.8 miles | 16 | |
| Lazy Acres Estates | 4.8 miles | 16 | |
| Geddie Gardens | 5.9 miles | 16 | |
| Ranchland Ranchettes | 5.9 miles | 16 | |
| Midland Acres | 6.1 miles | 16 |
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 Mayesville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2032002 | The 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.










