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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.

Saint Matthews within Calhoun County

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.

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Saint 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.

YearPeople Change
20002,107
20102,021-86 (-4%)
20201,841-180 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

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.

Joseph Banks House, 104 Dantzler Street, Saint Matthews, Calhoun County, SC
Joseph Banks House, 104 Dantzler Street, Saint Matthews, Calhoun County, SC
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

209 since 1992

Regional 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 burning108
Missing data/not specified/undetermined53
Arson/incendiarism13
Equipment and vehicle use13
Natural11
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking3
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 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 August 2011Natural5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calhoun County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Roof PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Calhoun 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
Wertz Crossroads1.8 miles13
Riley3.1 miles13
Singleton3.2 miles13
Totness5.5 miles13
Hammond Crossroads6.1 miles13
Wiles Crossroads6.7 miles13
Fort Motte6.8 miles13
Cameron8.1 miles13

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 MatthewsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1193941The 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.