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Salley, South Carolina

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Salley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29137. It stands on Abrams Branch. The Survey maps it on the Salley quadrangle. 329 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 374 feet above sea level.

Salley within Aiken County

On record in Salley

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

Salley fell from 398 to 329 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
2010398
2020329-69 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

181 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 181 fires within 5 miles of Salley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,521 acres in total. 8 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined69
Debris and open burning54
Equipment and vehicle use18
Arson/incendiarism13
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Natural8
Smoking4
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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 1997Debris and open burning4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2019Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2006Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2003Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use15 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use42 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Aiken County

Storms near this place

20 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Salley in 20 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 14 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 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
April 2011Thunderstorm WindSalley$500,000ASOS recorded a gust to 55 mph from a passing thunderstorm.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindSalley$14,000Aiken Power COOP reported trees and powerlines down on Surrey Race Road with outages.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindSalley$4,000DOT reported trees down between Windsor and Veterans roan on Hwy 4.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindSalley$3,000Highway Patrol reported trees in the road on Bonnet road.
April 2013Thunderstorm WindSalley$1,000Highway Patrol reported a couple of trees down near Salley.
January 2023Thunderstorm WindSalley-EM reported a building collapse and power lines down on Depot Ave NE in Salley. Time estimated.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindSalley-Aiken Co dispatch reported a tree down on Rocky Grove Rd near Rocky Grove Church near Salley. Time estimated.
February 2019Thunderstorm WindSalley-SCHP reported trees down on Jerusalem Branch Rd and Millers Pond Rd near Salley.
June 2015HailSalley-Pbulic reported quarter size hail on Hwy 4 west of Springfield.
June 2015HailSalley-Public reported quarter size hail on Hwy 4 west of Springfield.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindSalley-Trees down on Dean Swamp Church Road about 2 miles north of SC Hwy 4.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindSalley-Augusta TV station received a report from one of their spotters that a mobile sustained wind damage on hwy 394 west of Salley.
June 2008HailSalley-Sheriff reported nickel size hail at the intersection of highways 38 and 3.
October 2008Thunderstorm WindSalley-DOT reported a few trees down on SC 394 southwest of Salley.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindSalley-Emergency Manager reported several trees down from Salley to Wagener.
May 2005HailSalley-Post Office reported nickel size hail.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindSalley-Spotter reported trees down, some on houses.
November 1995Tornado (F0)Salley-Two homes damaged by tornado. Trees were knocked down.
June 1996Thunderstorm WindSalley-no account filed
July 1996HailSalley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Aiken 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
Perry4.2 miles12
Wagener6.7 miles12
Berlin7.5 miles12
Kitchings Mill9.3 miles12
Chaffee (historical)10.4 miles12
Spring Branch (historical)10.6 miles16
Camp Rawls11.2 miles12
Seivern11.8 miles12

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 SalleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2306082The 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 1250735. 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.

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.