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.
Population over time
3 figuresSellers 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 277 | |
| 2010 | 219 | -58 (-21%) |
| 2020 | 147 | -72 (-33%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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.
- 1953 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Latta quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Florence quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
189 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 66 |
| Debris and open burning | 43 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 41 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 19 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 September 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 September 2001 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 1999Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1999 | Lightning | Sellers | 1 hurt | A farm worker was struck by lightning while in a field, was hospitalized in critical condition. |
| October 2015 | Flash Flood | Sellers | $10,000 | Flooding was reported on Highway 38 near U.S. 501. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sellers | $1,000 | A tree was reported down on U.S. 301. The time was estimated based on radar data. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sellers | $1,000 | A tree was reported down on Old Ebenezer Rd. The time was estimated based on radar data. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sellers | $1,000 | A tree was reported down at the intersection of McClellan Ct. and Jade Ct. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sellers | $1,000 | A tree was reported down near the intersection of Antioch Church Road and Highway 38. The time was estimated based on radar data. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Sellers | - | Hail was reported in the town of Sellers. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Sellers | - | Nickel to golfball size hail was reported near Sellers. Nickel size hail was also reported on Hwy 501. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sellers | - | Several trees were blown down. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Sellers | - | Quarter size hail was reported. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sellers | - | SKYWARN spotter reported power lines down at Temperance Hill. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Brick | 4.8 miles | 9 | |
| Temperance Hill | 4.9 miles | 7 | |
| Spring Branch | 5.1 miles | 8 | |
| Laughlin | 6.1 miles | 8 | |
| Pee Dee | 6.4 miles | 9 | |
| West Marion | 7.0 miles | 8 | |
| Turner Place | 7.1 miles | 8 | |
| Marion | 8.2 miles | 8 |
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 Sellers | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q924236 | 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 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.



