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Richburg, South Carolina

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Richburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29729. The Survey maps it on the Richburg quadrangle. 280 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 584 feet above sea level.

Richburg within Chester County

On record in Richburg

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Richburg grew from 275 to 280 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
2010275
2020280+5 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

171 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 171 fires within 5 miles of Richburg between 1992 and 2020, burning about 494 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined58
Debris and open burning42
Railroad operations and maintenance32
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking7
Natural7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
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
3 September 2015Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Arson/incendiarism65 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2015Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1998Natural1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2005Smokingunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chester County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Richburg: 3 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Decker-Holway Steel--Richburg, ScIronUnknown
Dickerson Pit EastSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
Dickerson Pit EastSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Fishing Creek MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary

Every working recorded in Chester County

Storms near this place

17 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Richburg in 17 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 10 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
May 1996Tornado (F1)Richburg$20,000no account filed
March 2021Thunderstorm WindRichburg$5,000Emergency manager reported a section of roof torn off a mobile home on Old Mill Rd.
April 2025HailRichburg-Public reported a lot of penny size hail.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindRichburg-Public reported several large tree limbs blown down in the Richburg area.
May 2024HailRichburg-Public reported quarter to half dollar size in the Richburg area. A meteorologist (non-NWS) reported half dollar size hail in Fort Lawn.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindRichburg-County comms center reported trees and power lines blown down on Old Mill Rd.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindRichburg-Large tree limbs were blown down in Richburg.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindRichburg-Several trees were blown down near Richburg.
April 2011HailRichburg-no account filed
June 2011HailRichburg-no account filed
April 2010HailRichburg-no account filed
June 2008HailRichburg-no account filed
June 2008HailRichburg-no account filed
May 2003HailRichburg-no account filed
February 1997Thunderstorm WindRichburg-no account filed
January 1997HailRichburg-no account filed
May 1996HailRichburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chester 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
Lewisville (historical)1.9 miles12
Binghamtown (historical)1.9 miles12
Bascomville2.6 miles12
Knox3.3 miles12
Lando4.2 miles15
Tip Top (historical)4.6 miles12
Rodman5.1 miles15
Hicklin Crossing5.4 miles15

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 RichburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q746039The 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 1250370. 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.

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.