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Pinopolis, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Moncks Corner census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29469. The Survey maps it on the Moncks Corner quadrangle. 982 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 91 feet above sea level.

Pinopolis within Berkeley County

On record in Pinopolis

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

Surveyed buildings and structures 12 of 14 shown

Every surveyed structure in Berkeley County

Population over time

2 figures

Pinopolis grew from 948 to 982 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
2010948
2020982+34 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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.

Photographs

2 photographs,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

North Hampton Plantation House, Pinopolis, Berkeley County, SC
North Hampton Plantation House, Pinopolis, Berkeley County, SC
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Cedar Spring Plantation House, Pinopolis, Berkeley County, SC
Cedar Spring Plantation House, Pinopolis, Berkeley County, SC
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

319 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 319 fires within 5 miles of Pinopolis between 1992 and 2020, burning about 892 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 69 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 burning133
Missing data/not specified/undetermined85
Arson/incendiarism69
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Natural4
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1
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
6 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2001Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkeley County

Storms near this place

13 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pinopolis in 13 storm reports between 2006 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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
July 2007Thunderstorm WindPinopolis$6,000The roof of a home was reported to have received structural damage. Several windows were also broken.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindPinopolis$2,000Wind damage at Boy Scout Campground on south side of Lake Moultrie. Estimated 60-70 mph winds.
November 2006Thunderstorm WindPinopolis$1,000Large limbs down.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindPinopolis$500Large tree branches were reported down around Pinopolis, SC. The wind gusts were estimated at 55 mph.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindPinopolis-The Pinopolis site measured a wind gust of 62 mph.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindPinopolis-A 54 knot wind gust was measured by NWS equipment along the south side of Lake Moultrie.
May 2021HailPinopolis-A local news station reported nickel sized hail in Pinopolis.
October 2013Funnel CloudPinopolis-Media received a report from a viewer of a brief funnel cloud over Lake Moultrie.
August 2012HailPinopolis-A spotter reported hail the size of tennis balls on Lakeside Drive near Lake Moultrie.
August 2008HailPinopolis-Quarter size hail was reported by the public in Pinopolis, South Carolina.
May 2008HailPinopolis-Quarter size hail was reported near Pinopolis, South Carolina.
June 2008HailPinopolis-A trained weather spotter reported nickel size hail and 50 mph wind gusts in Pinopolis, South Carolina.
April 2007HailPinopolis-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Berkeley 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
Wampee1.2 miles18
Sugar Hill1.4 miles18
Frazier Hill1.6 miles18
Green Hill (historical)1.8 miles18
Kitfield (historical)2.1 miles12
Moncks Corner2.5 miles18
Mittenlane2.8 miles12
Oak Hill2.9 miles18

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 PinopolisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4246477The 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 1706237. 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.