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.
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
Salley Historic Districtlisted 2000
Population over time
2 figuresSalley 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 398 | |
| 2020 | 329 | -69 (-17%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 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.
- 1944 USGS Seivern 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
- 1983 USGS Aiken quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Salley quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
181 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 69 |
| Debris and open burning | 54 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 18 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 13 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 11 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| 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 1997 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 September 2003 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 September 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 42 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
20 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Salley | $500,000 | ASOS recorded a gust to 55 mph from a passing thunderstorm. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Salley | $14,000 | Aiken Power COOP reported trees and powerlines down on Surrey Race Road with outages. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Salley | $4,000 | DOT reported trees down between Windsor and Veterans roan on Hwy 4. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Salley | $3,000 | Highway Patrol reported trees in the road on Bonnet road. |
| April 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Salley | $1,000 | Highway Patrol reported a couple of trees down near Salley. |
| January 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Salley | - | EM reported a building collapse and power lines down on Depot Ave NE in Salley. Time estimated. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Salley | - | Aiken Co dispatch reported a tree down on Rocky Grove Rd near Rocky Grove Church near Salley. Time estimated. |
| February 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Salley | - | SCHP reported trees down on Jerusalem Branch Rd and Millers Pond Rd near Salley. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Salley | - | Pbulic reported quarter size hail on Hwy 4 west of Springfield. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Salley | - | Public reported quarter size hail on Hwy 4 west of Springfield. |
| September 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Salley | - | Trees down on Dean Swamp Church Road about 2 miles north of SC Hwy 4. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Salley | - | Augusta TV station received a report from one of their spotters that a mobile sustained wind damage on hwy 394 west of Salley. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Salley | - | Sheriff reported nickel size hail at the intersection of highways 38 and 3. |
| October 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Salley | - | DOT reported a few trees down on SC 394 southwest of Salley. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Salley | - | Emergency Manager reported several trees down from Salley to Wagener. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Salley | - | Post Office reported nickel size hail. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Salley | - | Spotter reported trees down, some on houses. |
| November 1995 | Tornado (F0) | Salley | - | Two homes damaged by tornado. Trees were knocked down. |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Salley | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Salley | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Perry | 4.2 miles | 12 | |
| Wagener | 6.7 miles | 12 | |
| Berlin | 7.5 miles | 12 | |
| Kitchings Mill | 9.3 miles | 12 | |
| Chaffee (historical) | 10.4 miles | 12 | |
| Spring Branch (historical) | 10.6 miles | 16 | |
| Camp Rawls | 11.2 miles | 12 | |
| Seivern | 11.8 miles | 12 |
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 Salley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2306082 | 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 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.







