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Snelling, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Kline-Snelling census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29812. The Survey maps it on the Snelling quadrangle. 250 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 230 feet above sea level.

Snelling within Barnwell County

Population over time

2 figures

Snelling fell from 274 to 250 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
2010274
2020250-24 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

184 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 184 fires within 5 miles of Snelling between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,639 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 23 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
Debris and open burning64
Missing data/not specified/undetermined51
Arson/incendiarism23
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Equipment and vehicle use11
Smoking7
Natural6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Fireworks2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2019Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2007Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 August 2007Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barnwell County

Storms near this place

26 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Snelling in 26 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 18 thunderstorm wind, 7 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 WindSnelling$12,000Sheriff reported numerous trees down in the Snelling area.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindSnelling$10,000Savannah River Site reported a measured wind gust to 73 mph with numerous trees down on site.
March 2013Thunderstorm WindSnelling$8,000DOT reported trees down in the Snelling area.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindSnelling$4,000EM reported trees down on Seven Pines Road 1/2 mile north of Hwy 64.
May 1995HailSnelling$3,000,,,,,,,,Thunderstorm Winds Trees blown down by thunderstorm winds
August 2015Thunderstorm WindSnelling$2,000Dispatch reported powerlines down in Snelling.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindSnelling$2,000County DOT reported a couple of trees down in the Snelling area.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindSnelling$500Savannah River Site EOC reported a large tree down across the intersection of Echo and Foxtrot roads.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindSnelling-Sheriff Dispatch reported a tree down near the intersection of Seven Pines Rd and Pioneer Rd north of Snelling.
April 2020Tornado (EF3)Snelling-Sentinel Satellite Data from April 13, 2020 clearly showed a damage scar beginning at the western edge of Parr Pond in the Savannah River Site and ending near the intersection of Highway 278 and State Road 21. A tornadic debris signature detected by the KCAE radar aligns with the damage scar. A ground survey also indicated a few trees down just off a field on the eastern side of Fellowship Road as the tornado dissipated. Based off of the above information and correspondence with a Savannah River Site official, it is estimated that winds reached EF-3 strength, with speeds up to 138 mph.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindSnelling-Trees down in the eastern portions of the Savannah River Site.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindSnelling-Instrument in Savannah River Site on a tower 200 feet above the ground measured a 71 MPH wind gust between 1115 PM and 1130 PM EDT.
September 2013HailSnelling-Savannah River Site reported nickel size hail.
July 2012HailSnelling-SRS reported quarter size hail.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindSnelling-DOE at the Savannah River Site reported a couple of trees down on sc125 near mile marker 5 in section D of the facility.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindSnelling-DOT reported a couple of trees down on Pioneer Road in Snelling.
May 2008HailSnelling-Emergency manager reported baseball size hail in Snelling and golf ball size hail in Barnwell. Storm survey found numerous homes had damage to siding, windows, and roofs. Auto and home windows were broken. Holes were in siding. Vehicles were badly dented. Crops were flattened and there was a blanket of leaves and pine needles that covered the ground and roadways.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindSnelling-Sheriff reported many trees down throughout the county. Two trees fell on a vehicle with no injuries.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindSnelling-Savannah River Site reported trees down on highway 125.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindSnelling-Savannah River Site reported large limbs down.
May 2005HailSnelling-Savannah River Site reported 3/4 inch hail on the east side of the facility.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindSnelling-Emergency Manager reported trees down from Snelling to Willistion.
December 2005HailSnelling-Savannah River Site reported nickel size hail.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindSnelling-State Law Enforcement reported trees and powerlines down and a tractor trailer overturned.
November 1995Thunderstorm WindSnelling-Two trees were knocked down.
May 1996HailSnelling-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Barnwell 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
Donora (historical)3.5 miles17
Happy Bottom4.4 miles16
Patterson Mill4.4 miles16
Hells Half Acre4.8 miles16
Barnwell5.2 miles16
Dunbarton (historical)5.3 miles17
Owens Crossroad6.4 miles16
Long Branch6.7 miles16

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 SnellingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2604298The 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 1226722. 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.