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.
Population over time
2 figuresSycamore 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 180 | |
| 2020 | 147 | -33 (-18%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 15 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.
- 1919 USGS Olar quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1943 USGS Olar quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Barnwell quadrangle1:100000
- 1982 USGS Sycamore quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
137 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 43 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 37 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 26 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2009 | Smoking | 1.3 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.2 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 August 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | 14 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
17 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sycamore | $3,000 | A National Weather Service employee reported several trees down along Highway 301, 3 miles northwest of Sycamore. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sycamore | $3,000 | Trees and Power Lines were reported down in Sycamore. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sycamore | $1,000 | 2 trees down off Carter Road. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sycamore | $500 | Emergency Manager reported one tree down in Sycamore. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sycamore | $500 | The Department of Highways reported a tree down in Sycamore, South Carolina along Route 641. |
| March 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sycamore | - | Allendale County Emergency Management reported a tree down in the 3400 block of Burtons Ferry Highway. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sycamore | - | The Allendale County 911 Call Center reported a tree down near the intersection of Bethel Church Road and Jennys Road. |
| April 2020 | Tornado (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 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sycamore | - | The Allendale 911 Call Center reported a tree down on Highway 321 near the intersection with Main Street in Sycamore. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sycamore | - | The Allendale County South Carolina Department of Transportation office reported a tree down on Williams Road about one mile from Highway 321. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sycamore | - | The Allendale County South Carolina Department of Transportation office reported a tree down on Highway 641 near the town of Sycamore. |
| July 2010 | Hail | Sycamore | - | A trained weather spotter reported quarter size hail and gusty winds in Sycamore, South Carolina. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sycamore | - | Several trees down along Longpoint Road. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sycamore | - | Several trees and large limbs were down. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sycamore | - | Trees and power lines down. |
| April 1999 | Hail | Sycamore | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Sycamore | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hayes Crossroads | 3.7 miles | 15 | |
| Tuten (historical) | 4.0 miles | 15 | |
| Ulmer | 4.3 miles | 15 | |
| Coalla (historical) | 4.5 miles | 15 | |
| Allendale | 5.0 miles | 15 | |
| Seigling | 5.0 miles | 15 | |
| Grays Crossroads | 5.0 miles | 15 | |
| Fairfax | 5.3 miles | 16 |
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 Sycamore | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2495325 | 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 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.








