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North Hartsville, South Carolina

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the North Hartsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29550. It stands on Horsepen Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hartsville North quadrangle. 2,775 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 223 feet above sea level.

North Hartsville within Darlington County

On record in North Hartsville

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

North Hartsville fell from 3,251 to 2,775 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
20103,251
20202,775-476 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

601 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 601 fires within 5 miles of North Hartsville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,739 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 81 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 burning242
Missing data/not specified/undetermined163
Arson/incendiarism81
Equipment and vehicle use35
Misuse of fire by a minor33
Natural20
Smoking11
Recreation and ceremony6
Other causes6
Fireworks2
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
8 September 2007Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2018Debris and open burning20 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2005Debris and open burning1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2011Natural1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2019Natural3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2009Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Darlington County

Storms near this place

10 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Hartsville in 10 storm reports between 2008 and 2022: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
October 2016Flash FloodNorth Hartsville$150,000A sinkhole developed on Ruby Road which closed a portion of the roadway. The time was estimated.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindNorth Hartsville$25,000A National Weather Service Storm Survey Team confirmed a microburst with winds up to 70 mph near Hartsville, South Carolina. The path length was about 0.3 miles and the average path width was 0.1 miles. The microburst downed or snapped a dozen trees along Sun Valley Drive. One of these trees did fall onto a house causing some damage to the roof. The metal roof and siding of a large storage shed were stripped and then blown onto a house causing damage to the roof of a house on Ousleydale Road. Six trees were also down in this area and blocking the road. A car accident reportedly resulted when a vehicle encountered a large pine tree across Ousleydale Road.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindNorth Hartsville$20,000Trees were reported down at the intersection of North Center Road and Patrick Highway. Two mobile homes sustained damage from the fallen trees.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindNorth Hartsville$10,000Hwy patrol reported multiple trees down on SC 102 and Patrick Hwy, Lakeview Blvd and Jessamine Dr.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindNorth Hartsville$10,000Two trees were reportedly down across power lines. The tree trunks were about 15 inches in diameter. The tin roof of a barn was peeled off and blown into a tree.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindNorth Hartsville$6,000Multiple trees were reported down along Patrick Highway and Timmerman Drive.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindNorth Hartsville$1,000A tree was reported down near the intersection of North 5th Street and Patrick Highway. The time was estimated based on radar data.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindNorth Hartsville-Powerlines were blown down along F street approximately 1 SSE of Hartsville.
May 2022HailNorth Hartsville-Three quarter inch was hail reported in North Hartsville.
August 2008HailNorth Hartsville-Hail lasted for more than five minutes and reached the size of quarters.

Every storm recorded in Darlington 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
Hillcrest0.5 miles14
Sherwood Forest0.8 miles14
Dunlap Terrace0.9 miles14
College Heights1.0 miles14
Club Colony1.3 miles14
Hartsville1.4 miles14
Prestwood Village1.4 miles14
Tanglewood1.4 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 North HartsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1988159The 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 1231599. 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.