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Perry, South Carolina

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Salley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29137. The Survey maps it on the Wagener quadrangle. 194 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 440 feet above sea level.

Perry within Aiken County

Population over time

2 figures

Perry fell from 233 to 194 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
2010233
2020194-39 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

203 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 203 fires within 5 miles of Perry between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,148 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 24 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/undetermined76
Debris and open burning61
Arson/incendiarism24
Equipment and vehicle use13
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Natural11
Smoking3
Other causes3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2005Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Aiken County

Storms near this place

10 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Perry in 10 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 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
August 2010Thunderstorm WindPerry$2,000Public reported several tree down along John Nunn Hwy and Juniper Street.
July 2016HailPerry$10Dime size hail and estimated 45 kt wind gusts at Shadow Trail in Sumter.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindPerry-SC highway patrol reported powerlines downed on the roadway on Nantuckett Rd. Time estimated by radar.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindPerry-SC highway patrol reported several trees down in northeast Aiken county northeast of Perry and Salley.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindPerry-Aiken Dispatch reported trees down on Nantuckett Rd in Salley.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindPerry-Trees down on Clinton Church Rd and Nantuckett Rd.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindPerry-Trees down on Poole Rd and John Nunn Hwy.
June 2015HailPerry-Public reported nickel to quarter size hail on SC 664 northeast of Wagener.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindPerry-Public reported large branches down on Charles Town Road.
June 2015HailPerry-SKYWARN spotter reported penny size hail 3 miles northwest of Salley.

Every storm recorded in Aiken 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
Wagener3.2 miles12
Berlin3.3 miles12
Salley4.2 miles12
Chaffee (historical)6.8 miles12
Seivern8.0 miles12
Camp Rawls9.2 miles12
Kitchings Mill9.4 miles12
Barefoot10.3 miles12

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 PerryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1883122The 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 1231644. 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.