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.
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
Smith-Cannon Houselisted 1983
Population over time
3 figuresTimmonsville 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 2,315 | |
| 2010 | 2,320 | +5 (+0%) |
| 2020 | 2,099 | -221 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1940 USGS Florence West quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1945 USGS Florence West quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Florence quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Florence quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Timmonsville quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
350 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 129 |
| Debris and open burning | 115 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 58 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 25 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 13 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2001 | Natural | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 8.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
20 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Timmonsville | $10,000 | A 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 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Timmonsville | $7,000 | Trees were reported down on power lines on McEeachern Street. |
| September 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Timmonsville | $5,000 | Trees down on Twin Church Road and Young Road. |
| May 2011 | Lightning | Timmonsville | $5,000 | A lightning strike caused a fire, destroying a small storage building. |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Timmonsville | $5,000 | General public reported shingles blown off a roof in Timmonsville. |
| March 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Timmonsville | $1,000 | A tree was reported down along Resting Place Road. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Timmonsville | $500 | Large tree limbs were reported broken and down. |
| January 2024 | Funnel Cloud | Timmonsville | - | A funnel cloud reported just west of Timmonsville. |
| May 2021 | Hail | Timmonsville | - | There were multiple reports of golf ball size hail in Timmonsville, and nearly tennis ball size in Cartersville, and Sardis SC. |
| September 2020 | Flash Flood | Timmonsville | - | Flooding was reported in Timmonsville and on I-95 exit 157. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Timmonsville | - | Hail to the size of pennies was reported. |
| March 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Timmonsville | - | Several trees were blown down, and a swingset was pulled out of the ground. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Timmonsville | - | Nickel size hail was reported. |
| June 2006 | Hail | Timmonsville | - | Nickel to quarter size hail was reported. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Timmonsville | - | Penny size hail fell. |
| July 2006 | Hail | Timmonsville | - | Quarter size hail near Magnolia Mall. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Timmonsville | - | Trees down. |
| March 1998 | Hail | Timmonsville | - | REPORTED BY SKYWARN SPOTTER AND MEDIA. |
| May 1996 | Hail | Timmonsville | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Timmonsville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pleasant View (historical) | 1.7 miles | 10 | |
| Kelly Farms | 3.2 miles | 10 | |
| Hollman Crossroads | 3.6 miles | 10 | |
| Oakdale | 3.9 miles | 10 | |
| Village Green | 3.9 miles | 10 | |
| Heritage | 4.1 miles | 10 | |
| Farmwood | 4.1 miles | 10 | |
| Whitehall | 4.2 miles | 10 |
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 Timmonsville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3240434 | 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 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.





