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Timmonsville, South Carolina

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Timmonsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29161. The Survey maps it on the Timmonsville quadrangle. 2,099 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 144 feet above sea level.

Timmonsville within Florence County

On record in Timmonsville

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

Population over time

3 figures

Timmonsville fell from 2,315 to 2,099 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
20002,315
20102,320+5 (+0%)
20202,099-221 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

350 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 350 fires within 5 miles of Timmonsville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,730 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 58 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/undetermined129
Debris and open burning115
Arson/incendiarism58
Equipment and vehicle use25
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Natural3
Smoking3
Fireworks1
Other causes1
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
30 September 2011Debris and open burning15 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2009Debris and open burning6.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2003Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2001Natural2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1997Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use15 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Florence County

Storms near this place

20 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Timmonsville in 20 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 9 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 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
July 2003Thunderstorm WindTimmonsville$10,000A NWS storm survey concluded strong staight-lined winds estimated at 80 mph caused portions of a roof to peel back. Numerous trees were downed including a 200 year old oak tree. A utility trailer was pushed back 40 feet.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindTimmonsville$7,000Trees were reported down on power lines on McEeachern Street.
September 2020Thunderstorm WindTimmonsville$5,000Trees down on Twin Church Road and Young Road.
May 2011LightningTimmonsville$5,000A lightning strike caused a fire, destroying a small storage building.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindTimmonsville$5,000General public reported shingles blown off a roof in Timmonsville.
March 2012Thunderstorm WindTimmonsville$1,000A tree was reported down along Resting Place Road.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindTimmonsville$500Large tree limbs were reported broken and down.
January 2024Funnel CloudTimmonsville-A funnel cloud reported just west of Timmonsville.
May 2021HailTimmonsville-There were multiple reports of golf ball size hail in Timmonsville, and nearly tennis ball size in Cartersville, and Sardis SC.
September 2020Flash FloodTimmonsville-Flooding was reported in Timmonsville and on I-95 exit 157.
July 2016HailTimmonsville-Hail to the size of pennies was reported.
March 2007Thunderstorm WindTimmonsville-Several trees were blown down, and a swingset was pulled out of the ground.
April 2006HailTimmonsville-Nickel size hail was reported.
June 2006HailTimmonsville-Nickel to quarter size hail was reported.
May 2006HailTimmonsville-Penny size hail fell.
July 2006HailTimmonsville-Quarter size hail near Magnolia Mall.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindTimmonsville-Trees down.
March 1998HailTimmonsville-REPORTED BY SKYWARN SPOTTER AND MEDIA.
May 1996HailTimmonsville-no account filed
May 1996HailTimmonsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Florence 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
Pleasant View (historical)1.7 miles10
Kelly Farms3.2 miles10
Hollman Crossroads3.6 miles10
Oakdale3.9 miles10
Village Green3.9 miles10
Heritage4.1 miles10
Farmwood4.1 miles10
Whitehall4.2 miles10

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 TimmonsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3240434The 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 1227149. 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.