Pamplico, South Carolina
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Pamplico census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29583. It stands on Buck Branch. The Survey maps it on the Pamplico South quadrangle. 1,061 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 82 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPamplico fell from 1,226 to 1,061 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,226 | |
| 2020 | 1,061 | -165 (-13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1946 USGS Hyman quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Kingstree quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Pamplico South quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
261 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 261 fires within 5 miles of Pamplico between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,880 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 57 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 burning | 94 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 68 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 57 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 18 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 8 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Other causes | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 September 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
19 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pamplico in 19 storm reports between 1997 and 2017: 8 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 3 flash flood, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2015 | Flash Flood | Pamplico | $70,000 | Roadway collapsed due to flood waters. A person attempting to retrieve his vehicle from the flooded area was swept away by water. He was rescued by the sheriff's department and was not injured. |
| September 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pamplico | $25,000 | A thunderstorm microburst struck near Hannah-Pamplico High School, felling trees and power lines. One car was totaled and others were dented. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pamplico | $5,000 | Several trees were reported down along West 6th Avenue. |
| August 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pamplico | $3,000 | Trees were reported down along N Walnut St. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Pamplico | $3,000 | Hail to the size of golf balls was reported. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Pamplico | $3,000 | Hail to the size of golf balls was reported. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pamplico | $2,000 | A National Weather Service Storm Survey Team concluded straight-line winds to 60 mph downed several large tree limbs along East Coleman Avenue, south of Highway 51. The time was estimated based on radar data. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pamplico | $2,000 | A National Weather Service Storm Survey Team concluded straight-line winds to 60 mph downed several large tree limbs along River Road near Lewis Road. The time was estimated based on radar data. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Pamplico | - | Nickel to quarter size hail fell in the Gibbs Crossroads area. |
| May 2007 | Hail | Pamplico | - | Nickel size hail fell along the county line, just south of Jeffries Creek. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pamplico | - | A large tree was down on a power line, knocking out power to 800 customers. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Pamplico | - | Hail reported on North Pamplico Hwy. |
| June 2005 | Heavy Rain | Pamplico | - | Water covered Big Swamp road and Bass road. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pamplico | - | Trees down. |
| September 2000 | Flash Flood | Pamplico | - | Emergency manager reported that the Old River Road between Pamplico and the Pee Dee River had flooded. |
| May 1998 | Flash Flood | Pamplico | - | Heavy rains caused flooding and roads were closed from Walnut to 7th Street. |
| July 1997 | Hail | Pamplico | - | REPORTED BY PAMPLICO POLICE |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pamplico | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Pamplico | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hyman | 1.4 miles | 8 | |
| Gibbs Crossroads | 2.6 miles | 9 | |
| Davistown | 2.8 miles | 9 | |
| Perrot | 3.1 miles | 9 | |
| Mount Zion | 3.2 miles | 8 | |
| Blossom | 3.4 miles | 8 | |
| Fleet | 3.4 miles | 8 | |
| Butler Crossroads | 3.6 miles | 8 |
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 Pamplico | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q599284 | The 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 1231624. 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.





