Mountville, South Carolina
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Cross Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29370. The Survey maps it on the Cross Hill quadrangle. 100 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 630 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresMountville fell from 130 to 100 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 | 130 | |
| 2010 | 108 | -22 (-17%) |
| 2020 | 100 | -8 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1941 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Cross Hill quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Newberry quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
104 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Mountville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 516 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 15 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/undetermined | 41 |
| Debris and open burning | 22 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 15 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1997 | Smoking | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 7.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 1998 | Natural | 40 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 11 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | NANALOO FIRE |
| 13 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 11 September 2002 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Mountville: 2 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Vermiculite, Mica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bailey Mine | Mica | Past Producer | ||
| Kenneth Hanna Mine | Vermiculite | Producer | Metamorphosed Igneous Intrusion | |
| Pinson #2 Mine | Vermiculite | Past Producer | Metamorphosed Igneous Intrusion | |
| Verenes Tract | Vermiculite | Unknown | Metamorphosed Igneous Intrusion |
Storms near this place
13 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mountville in 13 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountville | $250,000 | no account filed |
| September 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountville | $5,000 | County comms reported a couple of trees blown down, with one tree down across a front porch. |
| November 2025 | Hail | Mountville | - | Public reported (via Social Media) ping pong ball size hail along Highway 72 southwest of Clinton, with another public report of golf ball size hail nearby. |
| March 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountville | - | Law enforcement reported multiple trees blown down in and around Mountville. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountville | - | Highway Patrol reported multiple trees blown down in and near Clinton. |
| September 2015 | Hail | Mountville | - | Public reported dime to quarter size hail near Mountville. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountville | - | DOT reported a tree blown down on Highway 560 at Mountville Rd (4.5 ESE Mountville). Highway Patrol reported a tree down on Milam Rd (5 SW Clinton). |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountville | - | A tree was blown down at the intersection of Midway School Rd and highway 72 and another tree was downed at Jefferson David Rd and Old Milton Rd. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountville | - | Large tree limbs were blown down near Holmes Bridge Rd. |
| March 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountville | - | A strong cold front moving through the area generated high winds in the mountainous section of Greenville County downing a number of trees and power lines. Power remained out until the next morning in some areas. A line of thunderstorms developed along the front. A very small tornado (possibly a "gustnado") was spotted by air traffic controllers six miles southeast of the Greenville Downtown Airport. A weak tornado touched down in a wooded area with only tree damage reported. Some siding was blown off a house in Taylors and significant thunderstorm winds occurred with the same part of the line at Lake Robinson north of Greer. A spotter reported wind gusts to 80 mph with a number of trees downed. Weaker wind damage was reported around Landrum where a few trees were downed and a railroad sign was broken off. A stronger tornado (strong F0/weak F1) was generated southwest of Greenwood from a weakly rotating thunderstorm. The tornado touched down along Highway 10 destroying one mobile home and damaging several others - along with some homes. The tornado lifted after a one-mile track otherwise the storm could have moved near downtown Greenwood. The tornado track was almost due north while the parent thunderstorm moved northeast. The thunderstorm rapidly collapsed producing strong damaging winds in an area northeast of town - from near Coronaca over to Lake Greenwood. A couple of carports were torn from houses, a number of trees were downed, and power lines were taken down. A home under construction was severely damaged at the lake. Across the lake in Laurens County, the only evidence of damage was large tree limbs that were blown out. |
| April 2009 | Hail | Mountville | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Hail | Mountville | - | no account filed |
| February 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountville | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| White Plains Crossroad | 3.6 miles | 12 | |
| Harris Springs | 3.8 miles | 13 | |
| Cross Hill | 4.1 miles | 12 | |
| Milton | 4.2 miles | 12 | |
| Lisbon (historical) | 4.6 miles | 13 | |
| Waterloo | 4.9 miles | 13 | |
| Cold Point | 5.8 miles | 13 | |
| Spring Grove (historical) | 6.8 miles | 12 |
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 Mountville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3313587 | 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 1249752. 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.






