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Society Hill, South Carolina

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Society Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29593. It stands on Spot Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Society Hill quadrangle. 438 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 167 feet above sea level.

Society Hill within Darlington County

On record in Society Hill

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Society Hill fell from 563 to 438 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
2010563
2020438-125 (-22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Cedar Grove, Route 2, Society Hill, Darlington County, SC
Cedar Grove, Route 2, Society Hill, Darlington County, SC
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

214 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 214 fires within 5 miles of Society Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,238 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 31 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/undetermined72
Debris and open burning72
Arson/incendiarism31
Smoking13
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural9
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1
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
30 September 2009Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1998Smoking1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2002Equipment and vehicle use12 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Darlington County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Society Hill: 4 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Iron, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Harris CreekTitanium, IronUnknownPlacer , Modern , Fluvial
Unidentified Clay MineClayUnknownSedimentary
Unidentified Gravel MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
Unidentified Sand MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary

Every working recorded in Darlington County

Storms near this place

24 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Society Hill in 24 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 16 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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 2001Thunderstorm WindSociety Hill$15,000General public reported power lines down and part of a mobile home roof blown off, damaging a car.
September 2018Flash FloodSociety Hill$10,000South Main Street closed due to flash flooding.
April 2011HailSociety Hill$10,000Hail to the size of golf balls was reported.
September 2004Tornado (F0)Society Hill$10,000Tornado snapped several trees, and caused damage to a roof of a home.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindSociety Hill$5,000Several trees were reported down along U.S. 52.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindSociety Hill$3,000Trees were reported down on Westwood Circle.
December 2010Thunderstorm WindSociety Hill$3,000Trees were reported down at Bellevue Plantation Near Highway 52. The report was initially provided by the South Carolina Highway Patrol and then relayed via WMBF-TV. The time was estimated based on radar data.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindSociety Hill$1,000A tree was reported down at the intersection of Bushy Bay Road and Dundee Drive.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindSociety Hill$1,000A tree was reported down along U.S. 15.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindSociety Hill-Trees and power lines down near Hwy 52 and Burlington Dr.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindSociety Hill-Trees were blown down.
March 2007Thunderstorm WindSociety Hill-A large tree fell on power lines.
June 2006HailSociety Hill-Golfball size hail fell.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindSociety Hill-The AWOS at the Darlington Jetport measured a 58 mph wind gust.
June 2006HailSociety Hill-Penny size hail was reported in town, with golfball size hail reported on Hwy 52.
June 2006HailSociety Hill-Golfball size hail was reported on Lumber Rd.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindSociety Hill-Trees down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindSociety Hill-Skywarn reported trees down.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindSociety Hill-A measured 59 mph wind gust was recorded at the KUDG AWOS.
April 2000HailSociety Hill-Emergency manager reported dime size hail in Society Hill.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindSociety Hill-Numberous trees down.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindSociety Hill-no account filed
March 1996HailSociety Hill-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindSociety Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Darlington 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
Plumfield Landing1.6 miles8
Robbins Neck4.1 miles6
Gandy4.9 miles6
Lumber (historical)6.9 miles6
Antioch7.1 miles6
Greenplains (historical)7.3 miles6
Dovesville8.0 miles6
Mont Clare8.1 miles6

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 Society HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1869186The 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 1250950. 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.