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.
Population over time
2 figuresPerry 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 233 | |
| 2020 | 194 | -39 (-17%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 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.
- 1944 USGS Seivern quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 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
- 1983 USGS Aiken quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Wagener quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
203 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 76 |
| Debris and open burning | 61 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 24 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 13 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 11 |
| Natural | 11 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Other causes | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
10 since 2010Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perry | $2,000 | Public reported several tree down along John Nunn Hwy and Juniper Street. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Perry | $10 | Dime size hail and estimated 45 kt wind gusts at Shadow Trail in Sumter. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perry | - | SC highway patrol reported powerlines downed on the roadway on Nantuckett Rd. Time estimated by radar. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perry | - | SC highway patrol reported several trees down in northeast Aiken county northeast of Perry and Salley. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perry | - | Aiken Dispatch reported trees down on Nantuckett Rd in Salley. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perry | - | Trees down on Clinton Church Rd and Nantuckett Rd. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perry | - | Trees down on Poole Rd and John Nunn Hwy. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Perry | - | Public reported nickel to quarter size hail on SC 664 northeast of Wagener. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perry | - | Public reported large branches down on Charles Town Road. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Perry | - | SKYWARN spotter reported penny size hail 3 miles northwest of Salley. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wagener | 3.2 miles | 12 | |
| Berlin | 3.3 miles | 12 | |
| Salley | 4.2 miles | 12 | |
| Chaffee (historical) | 6.8 miles | 12 | |
| Seivern | 8.0 miles | 12 | |
| Camp Rawls | 9.2 miles | 12 | |
| Kitchings Mill | 9.4 miles | 12 | |
| Barefoot | 10.3 miles | 12 |
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 Perry | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1883122 | 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 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.







