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Summit, South Carolina

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Gilbert census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29070. The Survey maps it on the Gilbert quadrangle. 423 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 607 feet above sea level.

Summit within Lexington County

Population over time

3 figures

Summit grew from 219 to 423 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
2000219
2010402+183 (+84%)
2020423+21 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

200 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 200 fires within 5 miles of Summit between 1992 and 2020, burning about 495 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 15 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/undetermined79
Debris and open burning54
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Arson/incendiarism15
Natural13
Equipment and vehicle use10
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Smoking4
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1997Debris and open burning20 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2017Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2001Debris and open burning15 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lexington County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Summit: 6 past producers, 5 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Sand. 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
Bowers MineSandUnknownSedimentary
Rawl-Cotton Branch Road MineSandUnknownSedimentary
Adolphus Hite Kaolin PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Clamp Kaolin PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Hoyt-Hite Kaolin PitClayUnknownSedimentary
Gilbert PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Leesville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Summit PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Summit Sand MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Summit Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Lexington County

Storms near this place

6 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Summit in 6 storm reports between 2015 and 2020: 5 thunderstorm wind, 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
October 2015Flash FloodSummit$100,000SC Highway Patrol reports road washout at Elzie Hallman Road and Pond Branch Road.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindSummit$14,000Public reported broken utility poles, downed powerlines, and uprooted trees.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindSummit-Thunderstorm downburst winds knocked down numerous trees along a swath across Lexington Co SC from south of Leesville to the Lake Murray vicinity. Trees were downed on Pond Branch Rd and Davis Hite Place, on Windy Rd, on US Hwy 378 and Beaver Creek Rd, and on Shull Island near Larry Koon Landing. The roof of a structure collapsed on Bickley View Ct.
February 2020Thunderstorm WindSummit-Tree down on Lightwood Knot Rd. Time estimated.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindSummit-Numerous trees uprooted and snapped off on Dixired Rd, Buck Smith Rd, and Providence Rd in Leesville. Several trees fell onto homes. Time estimated.
December 2015Thunderstorm WindSummit-Trees down on power lines near exit 44 along I-20 south of Summit.

Every storm recorded in Lexington 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
Gilbert1.5 miles12
Murray2.0 miles12
Fredonia2.1 miles12
Clubhouse Crossroads2.7 miles12
Elsie4.7 miles12
Leesville4.9 miles11
Priceville5.1 miles12
Hollow Creek5.6 miles14

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 SummitAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2242541The 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 1231844. 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.