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.
Population over time
2 figuresPaxville 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 185 | |
| 2020 | 232 | +47 (+25%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 14 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.
- 1954 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Summerton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Paxville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Sumter quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Sumter quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
515 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 241 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 147 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 83 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 18 |
| Smoking | 9 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 8 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
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 2018 | Natural | 4.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 2018 | Natural | 7.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 35 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 2014 | Natural | 10 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
26 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paxville | $5,000 | Sheriff reported several trees down in Paxville. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paxville | $2,000 | Highway Patrol reported trees down on State Road 261 west of Paxton near the county line. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paxville | - | SC DOT reported one tree down on WR Simpson Rd. Exact location not provided. Time estimated. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paxville | - | SCDOT reported a tree down on Ethan Stone Road near Paxville. |
| March 2022 | Hail | Paxville | - | Public report of dime to penny size hail near Paxville. |
| March 2022 | Hail | Paxville | - | Public report of hail up to quarter size along Home Branch Rd just east of Paxville. |
| September 2020 | Tornado (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 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paxville | - | SCHP reported trees down on Paxville Hwy and Ethan Stone Rd. Time estimated based on radar. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paxville | - | Reported trees down along Hwy. 216 into Paxville. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paxville | - | Sheriff reported large trees down on Panola road. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paxville | - | Sheriff reported trees and powerlines down in Paxville. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Paxville | - | Post Office reported penny size hail fell just southwest of Paxville. |
| May 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paxville | - | Highway Dept. reported several trees down in the Paxville area. |
| June 2004 | Flash Flood | Paxville | - | Emergency services reported 2 to 3 inches of rain just east of Paxville flooding streams and fields. Some secondary roads were flooded. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paxville | - | Power company reported some trees and powerlines down. |
| September 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Paxville | - | Survey found an F0 path a half mile long which took down trees. |
| March 2002 | Hail | Paxville | - | Post Office reported dime size hail in Paxville. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paxville | - | Electric coop reported powerlines down in Homebranch near Paxville. |
| May 2000 | Hail | Paxville | - | SKYWARN spotter reported 3/4 inch hail. |
| September 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paxville | - | Sheriff reported trees down on vehicle on hwy 15. |
| September 1999 | Hail | Paxville | - | HAM operator reported dime size hail. |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paxville | - | Sheriff reported trees down in Paxville. |
| September 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paxville | - | Utility company reported several telephone poles snapped in half. |
| September 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paxville | - | EPD reported many trees down from Paxville to Manning. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paxville | - | Sheriff reported trees down. |
| May 1995 | Hail | Paxville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Silver | 4.2 miles | 14 | |
| Panola | 6.4 miles | 14 | |
| Harvin | 7.1 miles | 16 | |
| Halleytown | 7.3 miles | 14 | |
| Alcolu | 7.6 miles | 16 | |
| Manning | 8.3 miles | 16 | |
| Juneville | 8.9 miles | 16 | |
| Belser Crossroads | 8.9 miles | 15 |
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 Paxville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2929729 | 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 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.








