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Paxville, South Carolina

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Paxville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29102. It stands on Broadway Branch. The Survey maps it on the Paxville quadrangle. 232 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 184 feet above sea level.

Paxville within Clarendon County

Population over time

2 figures

Paxville grew from 185 to 232 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
2010185
2020232+47 (+25%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

515 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 515 fires within 5 miles of Paxville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,977 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 83 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 burning241
Missing data/not specified/undetermined147
Arson/incendiarism83
Equipment and vehicle use18
Smoking9
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Natural7
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1

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 2018Natural4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2018Natural7.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1999Arson/incendiarism35 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2014Natural10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clarendon County

Storms near this place

26 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Paxville in 26 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 16 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 tornado, 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
June 2010Thunderstorm WindPaxville$5,000Sheriff reported several trees down in Paxville.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindPaxville$2,000Highway Patrol reported trees down on State Road 261 west of Paxton near the county line.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindPaxville-SC DOT reported one tree down on WR Simpson Rd. Exact location not provided. Time estimated.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindPaxville-SCDOT reported a tree down on Ethan Stone Road near Paxville.
March 2022HailPaxville-Public report of dime to penny size hail near Paxville.
March 2022HailPaxville-Public report of hail up to quarter size along Home Branch Rd just east of Paxville.
September 2020Tornado (EF0)Paxville-A National Weather Service storm survey team confirmed an EF-0 tornado, with peak wind speeds of 60 mph, northwest of Manning in Clarendon County, SC. The weak tornado split the truck of a hardwood tree and snapped large branches on several other trees along Bradham Rd just south of W R Simpson Rd.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindPaxville-SCHP reported trees down on Paxville Hwy and Ethan Stone Rd. Time estimated based on radar.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindPaxville-Reported trees down along Hwy. 216 into Paxville.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindPaxville-Sheriff reported large trees down on Panola road.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindPaxville-Sheriff reported trees and powerlines down in Paxville.
May 2006HailPaxville-Post Office reported penny size hail fell just southwest of Paxville.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindPaxville-Highway Dept. reported several trees down in the Paxville area.
June 2004Flash FloodPaxville-Emergency services reported 2 to 3 inches of rain just east of Paxville flooding streams and fields. Some secondary roads were flooded.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindPaxville-Power company reported some trees and powerlines down.
September 2004Tornado (F0)Paxville-Survey found an F0 path a half mile long which took down trees.
March 2002HailPaxville-Post Office reported dime size hail in Paxville.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindPaxville-Electric coop reported powerlines down in Homebranch near Paxville.
May 2000HailPaxville-SKYWARN spotter reported 3/4 inch hail.
September 1999Thunderstorm WindPaxville-Sheriff reported trees down on vehicle on hwy 15.
September 1999HailPaxville-HAM operator reported dime size hail.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindPaxville-Sheriff reported trees down in Paxville.
September 1998Thunderstorm WindPaxville-Utility company reported several telephone poles snapped in half.
September 1998Thunderstorm WindPaxville-EPD reported many trees down from Paxville to Manning.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindPaxville-Sheriff reported trees down.
May 1995HailPaxville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clarendon 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
Silver4.2 miles14
Panola6.4 miles14
Harvin7.1 miles16
Halleytown7.3 miles14
Alcolu7.6 miles16
Manning8.3 miles16
Juneville8.9 miles16
Belser Crossroads8.9 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 PaxvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2929729The 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 1250042. 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.