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Troy, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Troy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29848. The Survey maps it on the McCormick quadrangle. 83 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 512 feet above sea level.

Troy within Greenwood County

Population over time

3 figures

Troy fell from 105 to 83 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
2000105
201093-12 (-11%)
202083-10 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

119 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Troy between 1992 and 2020, burning about 630 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined52
Debris and open burning27
Equipment and vehicle use14
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Arson/incendiarism7
Natural6
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
4 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2003Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burning105 acresFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsCRESWELL
16 September 1999Debris and open burning60 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greenwood County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Troy: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Zinc, Copper, Barium-Barite, Copper. 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
Dorn MineGold, Zinc, CopperPast ProducerVein/Stratabound
Dorn MineGold, Barium-BaritePast Producer
Link Mine/SmithGold, CopperPast ProducerPlacer
Young MineGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Greenwood County

Storms near this place

2 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Troy in 2 storm reports in 1995: 2 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 1995Tornado (F0)Troy$25,000A weak tornado touched down in the northeast edge of the town of Troy and moved east northeast at 60 mph. The tornado moved into a small area of McCormick County and then back into Greenwood County. Damage was primarily limited to downed trees and power lines but some roof damage to homes was reported and some outbuildings were destroyed.
November 1995Tornado (F0)Troy$25,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greenwood 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
Bradley5.1 miles15
Rushville7.2 miles15
Whitehall8.0 miles15
Verdery8.8 miles15
Aix (historical)9.2 miles15
Callison9.3 miles15
Breezewood9.9 miles15
Promised Land10.2 miles15

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 TroyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2864228The 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 1251222. 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.