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Neeses, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Neeses census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29107. The Survey maps it on the North quadrangle. 320 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 341 feet above sea level.

Neeses within Orangeburg County

Population over time

2 figures

Neeses fell from 374 to 320 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
2010374
2020320-54 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

264 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 264 fires within 5 miles of Neeses between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,034 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 31 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 burning113
Missing data/not specified/undetermined64
Arson/incendiarism31
Equipment and vehicle use25
Smoking13
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1
Fireworks1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1999Natural23 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Smoking3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2000Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2011Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orangeburg County

Storms near this place

28 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Neeses in 28 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 16 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
March 1998Tornado (F2)Neeses$80,000An F2 tornado tracked along highway 4 near Pine Hill. It picked up 2 mobile homes, took them 35 ft into the air, and brought them down on top of a 35 ft by 75 ft cinder block building 30 yards away completely destroying the mobile homes and the building. Other damage was done to a couple other mobile and permanent homes, and also to a church roof. A second 12 ft by 24 ft cinder block building was also demolished.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindNeeses$8,000Sheriff reported trees down in Neeses and Norway.
April 2013Thunderstorm WindNeeses$4,000Dispatch reported trees down southwest of Neeses.
March 2012Thunderstorm WindNeeses$4,000SCEG reported power outages due to large limbs and trees on powerlines near Neeses.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindNeeses$4,000Sheriff reported trees and powerlines down at Keiser Brown road and Neeses Hwy.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindNeeses$3,000Sheriff Dispatch reported a few trees down along Neeses Highway between Neeses and Springfield.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindNeeses$3,000Highway Patrol reported trees down on Neese Highway and Juniper Street.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindNeeses$3,000Highway Patrol reported trees in the roadway on US 321 near Neeses.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindNeeses$2,000Dispatch reported a couple of trees down between North and Neeses.
November 2024Flash FloodNeeses-Orangeburg County and SC state officials confirmed a breach of Lewis Davis Pond dam. No damage was reported as a result of the breach.
November 2024Flash FloodNeeses-SCDOT closed Calvary Church Rd between Ada Rd and Chatsworth Rd due to flooding.
November 2024Flash FloodNeeses-Orangeburg County and SC state officials confirmed a breach of Bolins Millpond dam. No damage was reported as a result of the breach.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindNeeses-SCHP and Emergency Management reported trees down on Neeses Hwy (SC Hwy 4) near Calvary Church Rd. Time estimated.
March 2012HailNeeses-Public reported quarter size hail at the Neeses Lawn and Garden Center.
March 2012HailNeeses-Public reported penny size hail in Neeses.
May 2012HailNeeses-Public reported quarter size hail in Neeses.
May 2012HailNeeses-Sheriff reported quarter size hail in Neeses.
March 2008Thunderstorm WindNeeses-DOT reported large limbs and powerlines down on Ida road.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindNeeses-Sheriff Dispatch reported trees down in the town of Neeses.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindNeeses-EM reported numerous trees down around the county. One tree fell on a home in Orangeburg. Two semi tractor trailers overturned on I-26 at mile marker 154, and a porch and roof were torn off of a mobile home in Bowman.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindNeeses-Sheriff reported a couple of trees down in Neeses on Tecva road.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindNeeses-Sheriff reported trees down between Neeses and Vance.
July 2003HailNeeses-Beulah Penticostal Church reported 3/4 inch hail.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindNeeses-Trees and power lines were downed from Neeses to Pine Hill reported by EPD.
May 1998HailNeeses-EOC reported 1 inch hail in Neeses.
November 1995Thunderstorm WindNeeses-Trees were knocked down.
May 1996HailNeeses-no account filed
March 1996HailNeeses-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Orangeburg 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
Boiling Spring (historical)1.5 miles13
Livingston1.5 miles13
Pine Hill4.0 miles13
Norway5.5 miles14
North5.9 miles13
Bolen Town6.8 miles15
Sawyerdale7.0 miles13
Creco (historical)7.6 miles14

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 NeesesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2090556The 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 1231583. 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.

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.