Saint Matthews, South Carolina
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the St. Matthews census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29135. The Survey maps it on the Saint Matthews quadrangle. 1,841 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 279 feet above sea level.
On record in Saint Matthews
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 within a mile 4 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Calhoun County Courthouselisted 1981 · 0.1 miles away
Col. J. A. Banks Houselisted 1980 · 0.2 miles away
Calhoun County Librarylisted 1975 · 0.2 miles away
Col. Olin M. Dantzler Houselisted 1973 · 0.4 miles away
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- Joseph Banks House, 104 Dantzler Street, Saint Matthewsfederal building survey, 12 photographs
Population over time
3 figuresSaint Matthews fell from 2,107 to 1,841 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 | 2,107 | |
| 2010 | 2,021 | -86 (-4%) |
| 2020 | 1,841 | -180 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 13 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.
- 1946 USGS St. Matthews quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS St. Matthews quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Sumter quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Sumter quadrangle1:100000
Photographs
1 photograph,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.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
209 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 209 fires within 5 miles of Saint Matthews between 1992 and 2020, burning about 693 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 13 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 burning | 108 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 53 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 13 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 13 |
| Natural | 11 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
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 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 September 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 11 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 10 September 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 August 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 August 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 August 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 August 2011 | Natural | 5.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Saint Matthews: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roof Pit | Clay | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wertz Crossroads | 1.8 miles | 13 | |
| Riley | 3.1 miles | 13 | |
| Singleton | 3.2 miles | 13 | |
| Totness | 5.5 miles | 13 | |
| Hammond Crossroads | 6.1 miles | 13 | |
| Wiles Crossroads | 6.7 miles | 13 | |
| Fort Motte | 6.8 miles | 13 | |
| Cameron | 8.1 miles | 13 |
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 Saint Matthews | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1193941 | 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 1250621. 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.








