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Mulberry, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Sumter census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29153. It stands on Mile Branch. The Survey maps it on the Sumter East quadrangle. 540 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 148 feet above sea level.

Mulberry within Sumter County

Population over time

3 figures

Mulberry fell from 841 to 540 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
2000841
2010529-312 (-37%)
2020540+11 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

Fires near this place

365 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 365 fires within 5 miles of Mulberry between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,594 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 50 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
Debris and open burning143
Missing data/not specified/undetermined131
Arson/incendiarism50
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Equipment and vehicle use15
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
4 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2003Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sumter County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Mulberry: 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Francis Moise ProspectIronProspect
White's Mill ProspectIronProspect

Every working recorded in Sumter 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
Pinehurst0.3 miles16
Lafayette Heights0.3 miles16
Runnymeade0.6 miles16
Walnut Hills0.7 miles16
Oaklawn0.8 miles16
Garris Park0.8 miles16
Greenwood1.1 miles16
Wen-le1.4 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 MulberryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2542498The 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 1867526. 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.