Promised Land, South Carolina
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Troy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29819. The Survey maps it on the Greenwood quadrangle. 378 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 623 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresPromised Land fell from 559 to 378 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 559 | |
| 2010 | 511 | -48 (-9%) |
| 2020 | 378 | -133 (-26%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 15 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.
- 1892 USGS Abbeville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1949 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:24000
- 1979 USGS Abbeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
182 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 182 fires within 5 miles of Promised Land between 1992 and 2020, burning about 906 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 11 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 | 80 |
| Debris and open burning | 42 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 16 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Smoking | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 7 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
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 2010 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 September 2010 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 11 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Promised Land: 2 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Martins Kiln | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Metamorphic | |
| Bradley Mine | Gold | Unknown | 1848 | |
| Bradley Mine | Gold | Past Producer | Placer | |
| Bradley Prospect | Gold | Occurrence |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Verdery | 1.4 miles | 15 | |
| Lorenzo (historical) | 1.4 miles | 15 | |
| Salak | 2.7 miles | 15 | |
| Bullock (historical) | 2.8 miles | 15 | |
| McCombs | 3.5 miles | 15 | |
| Whitehall | 3.5 miles | 15 | |
| Chinquapin | 3.6 miles | 15 | |
| Brookside | 3.7 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 Promised Land | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q611630 | 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 1250253. 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.





