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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.

Mountville within Laurens County

Population over time

3 figures

Mountville 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.

YearPeople Change
2000130
2010108-22 (-17%)
2020100-8 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

104 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined41
Debris and open burning22
Arson/incendiarism15
Smoking7
Natural6
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony1

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 1997Smokingunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2019Debris and open burning7.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1998Natural40 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2019Debris and open burning11 acresSouth Carolina Forestry CommissionNANALOO FIRE
13 September 2019Naturalunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2002Smoking2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Laurens County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bailey MineMicaPast Producer
Kenneth Hanna MineVermiculiteProducerMetamorphosed Igneous Intrusion
Pinson #2 MineVermiculitePast ProducerMetamorphosed Igneous Intrusion
Verenes TractVermiculiteUnknownMetamorphosed Igneous Intrusion

Every working recorded in Laurens County

Storms near this place

13 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1999Thunderstorm WindMountville$250,000no account filed
September 2015Thunderstorm WindMountville$5,000County comms reported a couple of trees blown down, with one tree down across a front porch.
November 2025HailMountville-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 2021Thunderstorm WindMountville-Law enforcement reported multiple trees blown down in and around Mountville.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindMountville-Highway Patrol reported multiple trees blown down in and near Clinton.
September 2015HailMountville-Public reported dime to quarter size hail near Mountville.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindMountville-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 2012Thunderstorm WindMountville-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 2011Thunderstorm WindMountville-Large tree limbs were blown down near Holmes Bridge Rd.
March 1995Thunderstorm WindMountville-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 2009HailMountville-no account filed
April 1999HailMountville-no account filed
February 1997Thunderstorm WindMountville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Laurens 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
White Plains Crossroad3.6 miles12
Harris Springs3.8 miles13
Cross Hill4.1 miles12
Milton4.2 miles12
Lisbon (historical)4.6 miles13
Waterloo4.9 miles13
Cold Point5.8 miles13
Spring Grove (historical)6.8 miles12

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 MountvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3313587The 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.