McColl, South Carolina
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the McColl census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29570. It stands on Marsnip Branch. The Survey maps it on the McColl quadrangle. 2,070 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 184 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresMcColl fell from 2,498 to 2,070 between 2000 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 2,498 | |
| 2010 | 2,174 | -324 (-13%) |
| 2020 | 2,070 | -104 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1942 USGS Rockingham quadrangle1:125000
- 1953 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Mc Coll quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1976 USGS Mc Coll quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Laurinburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
461 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 461 fires within 5 miles of McColl between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,624 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 140 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 140 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 121 |
| Debris and open burning | 120 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 29 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 26 |
| Smoking | 16 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | North Carolina Forest Service | not named |
| 6 September 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | North Carolina Forest Service | A MESS |
| 30 September 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | North Carolina Forest Service | HIGH WIND |
| 3 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tatum | 2.8 miles | 10 | |
| Adamsville Crossroads | 3.0 miles | 10 | |
| McDonalds | 3.2 miles | 8 | |
| Fletcher | 4.1 miles | 10 | |
| Red Bluff | 4.5 miles | 8 | |
| Beauty Spot (historical) | 5.6 miles | 8 | |
| Newtonville | 5.6 miles | 8 | |
| Lester | 5.6 miles | 8 |
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 McColl | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2000808 | 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 1253478. 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.





