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Mount Carmel, South Carolina

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Mount Carmel census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29840. The Survey maps it on the Calhoun Falls quadrangle. 156 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 541 feet above sea level.

Mount Carmel within McCormick County

On record in Mount Carmel

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

Population over time

3 figures

Mount Carmel fell from 237 to 156 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
2000237
2010216-21 (-9%)
2020156-60 (-28%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

105 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Mount Carmel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 848 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined38
Debris and open burning23
Arson/incendiarism12
Equipment and vehicle use11
Natural10
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony4
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined26 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2001Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined97 acresFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsLITTLE RIVER FIRE
16 September 2011Other causes1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Calhoun Mill2.6 miles13
Willington3.2 miles17
Belcher Crossroads5.1 miles13
Lethia5.8 miles17
Bordeaux7.2 miles17
Bradley Corner7.8 miles15
Buffalo8.2 miles16
Cedar Hill11.4 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 Mount CarmelAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q739645The 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 1230047. 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.