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McCormick, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the McCormick census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29835. It stands on Persimmon Branch. The Survey maps it on the McCormick quadrangle. 2,232 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 535 feet above sea level.

McCormick within McCormick County

On record in McCormick

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 12 records

Population over time

2 figures

McCormick fell from 2,783 to 2,232 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
20102,783
20202,232-551 (-20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Calliham's Mill, SC Route 138 on Stevens Creek, 2 miles east of Parksville, Parksville, McCormick County, SC
Calliham's Mill, SC Route 138 on Stevens Creek, 2 miles east of Parksville, Parksville, McCormick County, SC
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

161 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 161 fires within 5 miles of McCormick between 1992 and 2020, burning about 578 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined87
Debris and open burning34
Equipment and vehicle use14
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural4
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
9 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McCormick County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of McCormick: 9 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Barium-Barite, Zinc, Copper, Copper. 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
Abernathy and Kehaya/Dorn MineManganesePast Producer1942
Barite HillGold, Barium-Barite, Copper, Silver, Lead, ZincPast ProducerPyrite, Gold, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite
Butler ProspectBarium-Barite, Gold, Zinc, CopperPast Producer1860
Jennings MineGold, CopperUnknown1860
Dorn MineGold, Zinc, CopperPast ProducerVein/Stratabound
Dorn MineGold, Barium-BaritePast Producer
Self MineGold, Barium-BaritePast Producer1860
Barite HillGoldPast Producer1984, 1991
Butler ProspectGoldOccurrence
Jennings ProspectGoldProspect

Every working recorded in McCormick County

Storms near this place

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McCormick in 2 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
September 1995Thunderstorm WindMcCormick$5,000Numerous trees and powerlines down McCormick to Modoc.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindMcCormick-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McCormick 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
Cedar Hill2.1 miles16
Dornville (historical)2.8 miles16
Plum Branch4.8 miles16
Buffalo4.9 miles16
Parks Mill5.5 miles16
Whitetown5.9 miles16
Liberty Hill6.4 miles16
Winterseat6.7 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 McCormickAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2725803The 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 1246583. 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.