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Mayo, South Carolina

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Mayo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29368. It stands on Casey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cowpens quadrangle. 1,567 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 889 feet above sea level.

Mayo within Spartanburg County

Population over time

2 figures

Mayo fell from 1,592 to 1,567 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
20101,592
20201,567-25 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

159 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 159 fires within 5 miles of Mayo between 1992 and 2018, burning about 667 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined63
Debris and open burning36
Misuse of fire by a minor19
Equipment and vehicle use16
Smoking9
Arson/incendiarism7
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Other causes2
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
4 September 2010Smokingunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use15 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 2009Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spartanburg County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Mayo: 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Unnamed Granite QuarryGranite, Stone, Crushed/BrokenUnknownMetamorphic
Pacolet River PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
Pacolet River PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Spartanburg County

Storms near this place

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mayo in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2018: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. 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
June 2018Thunderstorm WindMayo-County comms reported several trees blown down in the Mayo area.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindMayo-County comms reported two trees blown down near Buck Creek Rd and Crow Rd.
May 2012HailMayo-Dime to quarter size hail fell along Taft Dr.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindMayo-Multiple trees were blown down near the intersection of highway 221 and Skyline Dr, with other trees down on Henderson Hill Rd, Mossburg Rd, and on Pickens St and South Alabama Ave in the city. Some damage was done to the athletics facilities at Chesnee High School (on Alabama Ave), where a dugout was destroyed and some stadium lights were twisted.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindMayo-Shingles were blown off the roof of a home.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindMayo-Several trees blown down near Lake Blalock.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindMayo-A large tree was blown down on Buck Creek Rd and a power pole and lines were blown down on Paris Bridge Rd.
July 2006HailMayo-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindMayo-no account filed
June 1997HailMayo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Spartanburg 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
Springdale Estates0.3 miles14
Mayo Mills0.9 miles14
Fosters Grove2.5 miles13
Kentwood2.9 miles13
Cherokee Springs2.9 miles13
McGreegor Downs3.3 miles13
Whitlock Park3.5 miles14
Lakeview Manor3.6 miles13

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 MayoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3313643The 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 1231525. 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.