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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.

McColl within Marlboro County

Population over time

3 figures

McColl 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.

YearPeople Change
20002,498
20102,174-324 (-13%)
20202,070-104 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

461 since 1992

Regional 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/incendiarism140
Missing data/not specified/undetermined121
Debris and open burning120
Misuse of fire by a minor29
Equipment and vehicle use26
Smoking16
Natural6
Fireworks3

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
8 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresNorth Carolina Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreNorth Carolina Forest ServiceA MESS
30 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreNorth Carolina Forest ServiceHIGH WIND
3 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2007Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marlboro 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
Tatum2.8 miles10
Adamsville Crossroads3.0 miles10
McDonalds3.2 miles8
Fletcher4.1 miles10
Red Bluff4.5 miles8
Beauty Spot (historical)5.6 miles8
Newtonville5.6 miles8
Lester5.6 miles8

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 McCollAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2000808The 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.