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Sycamore, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Sycamore census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29827. The Survey maps it on the Sycamore quadrangle. 147 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 148 feet above sea level.

Sycamore within Allendale County

Population over time

2 figures

Sycamore fell from 180 to 147 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
2010180
2020147-33 (-18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

137 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 137 fires within 5 miles of Sycamore between 1992 and 2020, burning about 466 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 37 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 burning43
Arson/incendiarism37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural10
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking4
Other causes2
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
8 September 2009Smoking1.3 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2000Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2017Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2002Equipment and vehicle use14 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Allendale County

Storms near this place

17 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sycamore in 17 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 13 thunderstorm wind, 3 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
November 2011Thunderstorm WindSycamore$3,000A National Weather Service employee reported several trees down along Highway 301, 3 miles northwest of Sycamore.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindSycamore$3,000Trees and Power Lines were reported down in Sycamore.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindSycamore$1,0002 trees down off Carter Road.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindSycamore$500Emergency Manager reported one tree down in Sycamore.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindSycamore$500The Department of Highways reported a tree down in Sycamore, South Carolina along Route 641.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindSycamore-Allendale County Emergency Management reported a tree down in the 3400 block of Burtons Ferry Highway.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindSycamore-The Allendale County 911 Call Center reported a tree down near the intersection of Bethel Church Road and Jennys Road.
April 2020Tornado (EF0)Sycamore-A National Weather Service Storm Survey Team confirmed an EF-0 tornado with an estimated maximum wind speed of 76 mph in eastern Allendale County. The weak tornado initially touched down near the intersection of Route 321 and Mt. Pleasant Church Road, continuing east-northeast and crossing Bethel Church Road, before dissipating just northeast of the intersection of Route 641 and Rebel Drive. Damage from the tornado primarily consisted of sporadic and discontinuous tree damage along its path.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindSycamore-The Allendale 911 Call Center reported a tree down on Highway 321 near the intersection with Main Street in Sycamore.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindSycamore-The Allendale County South Carolina Department of Transportation office reported a tree down on Williams Road about one mile from Highway 321.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindSycamore-The Allendale County South Carolina Department of Transportation office reported a tree down on Highway 641 near the town of Sycamore.
July 2010HailSycamore-A trained weather spotter reported quarter size hail and gusty winds in Sycamore, South Carolina.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindSycamore-Several trees down along Longpoint Road.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindSycamore-Several trees and large limbs were down.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindSycamore-Trees and power lines down.
April 1999HailSycamore-no account filed
May 1998HailSycamore-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Allendale 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
Hayes Crossroads3.7 miles15
Tuten (historical)4.0 miles15
Ulmer4.3 miles15
Coalla (historical)4.5 miles15
Allendale5.0 miles15
Seigling5.0 miles15
Grays Crossroads5.0 miles15
Fairfax5.3 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 SycamoreAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2495325The 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 1227007. 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.