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New Ellenton, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the New Ellenton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29809. The Survey maps it on the New Ellenton quadrangle. 2,210 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 410 feet above sea level.

New Ellenton within Aiken County

Population over time

2 figures

New Ellenton grew from 2,052 to 2,210 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
20102,052
20202,210+158 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

245 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 245 fires within 5 miles of New Ellenton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,416 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 22 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 burning95
Missing data/not specified/undetermined77
Arson/incendiarism22
Natural16
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Equipment and vehicle use12
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking2
Fireworks2
Other causes2

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
7 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2004Misuse of fire by a minor10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2019Debris and open burning1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1997Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Aiken County

Storms near this place

40 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Ellenton in 40 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 28 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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
July 2015Thunderstorm WindNew Ellenton$14,000Aiken Electric reported trees and powerlines down causing outages in the New Ellenton area. A woman also reported that a microburst moved her motor home 4 feet causing some damage and that there were trees and powerlines down.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindNew Ellenton$14,000Public reported numerous trees down in and around New Ellenton.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindNew Ellenton$6,000Sheriff reported trees down near New Ellenton.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindNew Ellenton$5,000Sheriff reported trees down at Pine Bell Church road and Cooper Drive.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindNew Ellenton$4,000Highway Patrol reported trees in the roadway at the intersection of Hwy 278 and Green Pond Road.
March 2011Thunderstorm WindNew Ellenton$2,000DOT reported a half dozen trees down on Silverbluff Road south of hwy 302.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindNew Ellenton$1,000Sheriff reported powerlines down on Whiskey Road and Risher Ave. in New Ellenton.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindNew Ellenton$500Sheriff reported a tree down on Main St. in New Ellenton.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindNew Ellenton$500Highway Patrol reported a tree in the roadway at Woodfield Road and Independent Blvd.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindNew Ellenton$200Public reported large branches down which damaged a fence. Dime size hail was also reported.
July 2017Heavy RainNew Ellenton$100Significant weather report submitted by a CoCoRaHS observer, about 4 miles SSW of Aiken, of 0.99 inches of rain that fell in a 30 minute period ending at 6:30 pm EDT (5:30 pm EST).
July 2024Thunderstorm WindNew Ellenton-SC Department of Public Safety reported a tree in the roadway at the intersection of Storm Branch Road and Silver Bluff Road.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindNew Ellenton-SC Department of Public Safety reported a tree in roadway at the intersection of Green Pond, Road, Desoto Drive, and Dragstrip Road.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindNew Ellenton-Tree fell on a house on Davenport Ln just northeast of New Ellenton. Time estimated.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindNew Ellenton-SC Highway Patrol reported a tree in the roadway. Time estimated by radar.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindNew Ellenton-WRDW reported a downed tree on Georgia Ave via social media. Time estimated.
August 2017HailNew Ellenton-Utility company employee reported quarter size hail in New Ellenton.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindNew Ellenton-SCHP reported power lines down near the intersection of Dry Branch Rd and Chime Bell Church Rd.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindNew Ellenton-A large branch was downed and took down a power line along Dry Branch Rd near New Ellenton.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindNew Ellenton-SCHP reported a tree down in New Ellenton at the intersection of Virginia Ave and Coffee St.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindNew Ellenton-Law enforcement reported tree down at Dry Branch Road and Whiskey Road.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindNew Ellenton-Law enforcement reported trees down in the Cedar Creek Development.
June 2015HailNew Ellenton-Public reported quarter size hail in New Ellenton.
September 2014HailNew Ellenton-Public reported via facebook that quarter size hail fell on Hwy 278 west of New Ellenton.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindNew Ellenton-Public reported large limbs down along with pea size hail. The hail only last around 2 minutes.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindNew Ellenton-Aiken Electric Cooperative reported power outages due to trees on a power line.
May 2014HailNew Ellenton-Public reported half dollar size hail in New Ellenton.
July 2013HailNew Ellenton-Public reported penny to nickel size hail on Cooper drive in New Ellenton.
July 2012HailNew Ellenton-Public reported quarter size hail on White Pond Road.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindNew Ellenton-Beech Island Fire Department reported power lines down on Desoto Road near Hwy. 278.
March 2008Tornado (EF0)New Ellenton-Storm survey found trees down along a path from New Ellenton to just southwest of Wagener. A few powerlines were also down.
April 2005Thunderstorm WindNew Ellenton-Sheriff reported trees down on Cedar Branch Road and also Windy Lane.
May 2005HailNew Ellenton-Public called in a report of nickel size hail at Hollow Creek.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindNew Ellenton-Sheriff reported several trees down at the intersection of US 278 and SC HWY 19
June 2000Thunderstorm WindNew Ellenton-Police reported trees down.
July 1999HailNew Ellenton-Sheriff reported penny size hail.
June 1998HailNew Ellenton-EPD reported nickel size hail.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindNew Ellenton-Utility company reported trees and powerlines down.
April 1998HailNew Ellenton-SKYWARN spotter reports nickel size hail at hwys 302 and 278.
August 1996Thunderstorm WindNew Ellenton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Aiken 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
Oak Hill1.6 miles18
Dry Branch1.9 miles18
Talatha2.1 miles18
Johnson Crossroads2.1 miles18
Talatha Farms4.2 miles18
Chukker Creek4.4 miles18
Hunters Glen4.9 miles18
College Acres5.2 miles18

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 New EllentonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2333760The 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 1231587. 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.