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Sellers, South Carolina

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Marion census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29592. The Survey maps it on the Latta quadrangle. 147 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 85 feet above sea level.

Sellers within Marion County

Population over time

3 figures

Sellers fell from 277 to 147 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
2000277
2010219-58 (-21%)
2020147-72 (-33%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

189 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 189 fires within 5 miles of Sellers between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,249 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 41 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/undetermined66
Debris and open burning43
Arson/incendiarism41
Equipment and vehicle use19
Smoking6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Natural4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1

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
4 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

11 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sellers in 11 storm reports between 1999 and 2020: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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
July 1999LightningSellers1 hurtA farm worker was struck by lightning while in a field, was hospitalized in critical condition.
October 2015Flash FloodSellers$10,000Flooding was reported on Highway 38 near U.S. 501.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindSellers$1,000A tree was reported down on U.S. 301. The time was estimated based on radar data.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindSellers$1,000A tree was reported down on Old Ebenezer Rd. The time was estimated based on radar data.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindSellers$1,000A tree was reported down at the intersection of McClellan Ct. and Jade Ct.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindSellers$1,000A tree was reported down near the intersection of Antioch Church Road and Highway 38. The time was estimated based on radar data.
May 2020HailSellers-Hail was reported in the town of Sellers.
June 2007HailSellers-Nickel to golfball size hail was reported near Sellers. Nickel size hail was also reported on Hwy 501.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindSellers-Several trees were blown down.
May 2006HailSellers-Quarter size hail was reported.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindSellers-SKYWARN spotter reported power lines down at Temperance Hill.

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Blue Brick4.8 miles9
Temperance Hill4.9 miles7
Spring Branch5.1 miles8
Laughlin6.1 miles8
Pee Dee6.4 miles9
West Marion7.0 miles8
Turner Place7.1 miles8
Marion8.2 miles8

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 SellersAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q924236The 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 1231789. 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.