Saxon, South Carolina
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Spartanburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29301. The Survey maps it on the Spartanburg quadrangle. 3,896 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 860 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSaxon grew from 3,424 to 3,896 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 | 3,424 | |
| 2020 | 3,896 | +472 (+14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 18 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.
- 1941 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1947 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1949 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
152 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 152 fires within 5 miles of Saxon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 428 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 11 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 | 74 |
| Debris and open burning | 30 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 17 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 31 August 2011 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 August 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 August 2011 | Fireworks | 3.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | 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 Saxon: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Iron. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Spartanburg | Titanium, Iron | Unknown | Placer , Modern , Fluvial |
Storms near this place
7 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Saxon in 7 storm reports between 2009 and 2018: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death and 3 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2015 | Flash Flood | Saxon | 1 killed, 1 hurt, $200,000 | County comms and FD reported significant flash flooding developed on the north side of the city of Spartanburg after 3 to 5 inches of rain fell in only a couple of hours. Multiple roads were closed due to poor drainage flooding and due to Chinquapin Creek and other small tributaries overflowing their banks. A 56-year-old woman drowned in her vehicle when she drove into water on New Cut Rd. A man was injured when he drove his truck into a collapsed culvert on Hayne St near Ethel Rd. Water from Chinquapin Creek entered homes on Pearson St. Water from an overflowing tributary of Lawsons Fork Creek entered about a dozen apartment units at USC Upstate. Closed roads included Asheville Highway, Howard St, Valley Falls Rd, New Cut Rd and I-85 Business. Wet soil and erosion caused a tree to fell on a home in the Una Community. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Saxon | 2 hurt | A tree fell on a vehicle and trapped three occupants on Briarwood Rd. Two of the occupants were treated for minor injuries. Multiple large trees, limbs and power lines|were blown down across Fernwood Dr near Bellwood Dr. Large limbs fell on two homes on Fernwood Dr. |
| July 2012 | Hail | Saxon | $1,000,000 | An intense hail storm slowly back-built over the southwest side of Spartanburg. Quarter to golf ball size hail fell in the West Spartanburg and Roebuck areas. Two |auto dealerships on Reidville Rd just to the west in Interstate 26 had extensive damage to their inventory. Several residences in this area received roof damage from hail as well. |
| October 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Saxon | $10,000 | NWS storm survey found an extensive area of primarily straight-line wind damage across the Saxon community, between the end of one tornado path that ended in the vicinity of Westgate Mall, and another tornado that began along Business 85 across from Spartanburg Community College. This appeared to be the result of very strong inflow into the developing second tornado, although the dissipating first tornado may have intermingled with the strong inflow winds. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Saxon | - | County comms reported a few trees blown down around Spartanburg. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Saxon | - | Six trees were blown down along Vanderbilt Rd. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Saxon | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hayne Station | 0.4 miles | 18 | |
| Una | 0.6 miles | 18 | |
| Glenwood (historical) | 1.0 miles | 18 | |
| Ridgewood Heights | 1.0 miles | 18 | |
| Hub City Courts | 1.2 miles | 18 | |
| Johnson City | 1.2 miles | 18 | |
| Vanderbilt Hills | 1.2 miles | 18 | |
| Arcadia | 1.3 miles | 18 |
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 Saxon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2693075 | 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 1250806. 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.









