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Ninety Six, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Ninety Six census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29666. It stands on Brightmans Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ninety Six quadrangle. 2,076 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 548 feet above sea level.

Ninety Six within Greenwood County

On record in Ninety Six

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 5 records

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Ninety Six grew from 1,936 to 2,076 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
20001,936
20101,998+62 (+3%)
20202,076+78 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

145 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 145 fires within 5 miles of Ninety Six between 1992 and 2020, burning about 496 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined78
Debris and open burning33
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Equipment and vehicle use9
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural4
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
30 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burning100 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greenwood County

Storms near this place

23 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ninety Six in 23 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 19 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning, 2 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
July 2010LightningNinety Six$100,000no account filed
June 2016Thunderstorm WindNinety Six$5,000EM and newspaper reported multiple trees, limbs, and power lines blown down in the Ninety-Six area, with one tree on a garage on Lowell St.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindNinety Six$5,000A tree was blown onto a vehicle.
June 2000LightningNinety Six$4,000no account filed
July 2017Thunderstorm WindNinety Six$2,000Public reported a large tree limb fell on a house.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindNinety Six-Utility company reported trees blown down on power lines in the Ninety Six area.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindNinety Six-NWS storm survey found a swath of downburst damage on the grounds of the Ninety Six National Historic Park. Numerous trees were blown down from north-to-south across the park, with the most significant damage observed near the southern boundary. Emergency manager reported some damage that extended to areas just south of the park.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindNinety Six-County comms reported trees blown down along Highway 702.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindNinety Six-County comms reported multiple power lines blown down in Ninety Six, including on Cambridge St. Two trees were also blown down on Pheasant Road near the Saluda County line.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindNinety Six-Media reported trees blown down in the Ninety Six area.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindNinety Six-PD reported multiple trees blown down from near Ninety Six to the Laurens County line.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindNinety Six-County comms reported several large tree limbs blown down across Ninety Six National Historic Site.
March 2012Thunderstorm WindNinety Six-Trees were blown down around the Ninety Six community, including along Louden Rd about 3 miles southwest of town, Gervais St in town and Watts Bridge Rd 2.5 miles north of town.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindNinety Six-Large tree limbs were blown down at Ninety Six National Historic Site.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindNinety Six-Several trees were blown down between Greenwood and Ninety Six.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindNinety Six-Trees were blown down around the Ninety-Six area.
March 2008Thunderstorm WindNinety Six-A couple of trees were blown down in Ninety Six.
November 2004Thunderstorm WindNinety Six-Power lines blown down in a subdivision near highway 34.
March 2012HailNinety Six-no account filed
May 2006HailNinety Six-no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindNinety Six-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindNinety Six-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindNinety Six-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greenwood 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
Colonial Heights0.5 miles15
Springdale0.8 miles15
Cherry Hill1.7 miles15
Cambridge (historical)2.1 miles15
Godsey3.0 miles12
Magnolia Place3.4 miles15
Pinehurst3.6 miles15
Fairforest4.2 miles15

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 Ninety SixAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2003674The 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 1249874. 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.