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Russellville, South Carolina

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the St. Stephen census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29479. The Survey maps it on the Saint Stephen quadrangle. 380 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 79 feet above sea level.

Russellville within Berkeley County

Population over time

2 figures

Russellville fell from 488 to 380 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
2010488
2020380-108 (-22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

938 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 938 fires within 5 miles of Russellville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,607 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 201 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/undetermined406
Debris and open burning282
Arson/incendiarism201
Equipment and vehicle use11
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Natural8
Smoking7
Other causes6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
9 September 2017Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Debris and open burning2.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2000Debris and open burning1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2006Arson/incendiarism12 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Debris and open burning1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berkeley County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Russellville: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
St. Stephens Brick Co PitClayPast Producer1961
Santee Minerals MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
St Stephens PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Berkeley County

Storms near this place

9 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Russellville in 9 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 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
June 2010Thunderstorm WindRussellville$1,000A fire department reported 1 tree down.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindRussellville$1,000Trees down in Russellville.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindRussellville-The Berkeley County 911 Call Center reported a tree down near the intersection of Highway 35 and Russellville Road.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindRussellville-The Berkeley County 911 Call Center reported a tree down near the intersection of Prosperity Lane and South Carolina Highway 45.
June 2015Tornado (EF0)Russellville-Several videos and pictures were taken of a waterspout on the northern end of Lake Moultrie. The waterspout did not make landfall.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindRussellville-Berkeley County Emergency Management reported trees down at the intersection of Russellville Road and Highway 35.
April 2011Tornado (EF1)Russellville-NWS personnel confirmed a EF-1 tornado with estimated wind speeds between 105 to 110 miles per hour. A tornadic waterspout formed over northern Lake Moultrie in South Carolina at 503 PM and traveled east northeast for 2 miles before coming onshore 2.5 miles southwest of Russellville South Carolina. The tornado then traveled east northeast before dissipating 1 mile southeast of Saint Stephen, South Carolina. The tornado lifted a roof off a church, destroyed a mobile home, shifted two other mobile homes off their foundations, tore half the roof off a house, destroyed a barn, tore shingles and/or siding off of a dozen homes/mobile homes, uprooted or snapped off many hundred trees, damaged or destroyed sections of several fences and knocked down several power poles.
April 2011HailRussellville-A spotter reported golf ball to tennis ball size hail near Russellville, South Carolina.
July 2000HailRussellville-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
Old Peru1.8 miles9
Saint Stephen2.7 miles9
Swamp Fox3.1 miles9
Judge Town3.5 miles18
Murrell (historical)3.7 miles18
Pineville3.7 miles18
North End (historical)3.7 miles9
Wilder (historical)3.7 miles9

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 RussellvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6113777The 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 1230264. 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.