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Pineridge, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the West Columbia-Cayce census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29172. It stands on First Creek. The Survey maps it on the Southwest Columbia quadrangle. 2,167 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 262 feet above sea level.

Pineridge within Lexington County

Population over time

3 figures

Pineridge grew from 1,593 to 2,167 between 2000 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
20001,593
20102,064+471 (+30%)
20202,167+103 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

591 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 591 fires within 5 miles of Pineridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,376 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 41 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/undetermined283
Debris and open burning106
Misuse of fire by a minor85
Arson/incendiarism41
Equipment and vehicle use28
Natural12
Smoking10
Recreation and ceremony9
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Fireworks2
Other causes1

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
8 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2007Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lexington County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 34 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 34 workings within 5 miles of Pineridge: 16 producers, 12 unknowns, 6 past producers. 16 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Silica, Zirconium, Titanium, Iron, Thorium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Red Bank CreekZirconium, Titanium, Iron, ThoriumUnknownPlacer , Modern , Fluvial
Cayce Silica PlantSilicaUnknown
Columbia Pit EastSilicaProducer
Columbia WorksSilicaProducer
Hites Kaolin PitClayProducer
Lexington County MineClayUnknownSedimentary
Lexington County MineClayUnknownSedimentary
Lexington County MinesClayProducer
Unidentified MineClayUnknownSedimentary
Columbia Pit EastSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary

Every working recorded in Lexington 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
Apollo Gardens0.4 miles13
Arborgate0.5 miles13
Westcliff Estates0.9 miles13
Styx (historical)1.0 miles13
Grandview Estates1.3 miles13
Congaree Gardens1.6 miles13
South Congaree1.6 miles13
Charwood1.8 miles13

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 PineridgeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2191485The 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 1250127. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.