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Turbeville, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Turbeville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29162. The Survey maps it on the Turbeville quadrangle. 760 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 125 feet above sea level.

Turbeville within Clarendon County

Population over time

2 figures

Turbeville fell from 766 to 760 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
2010766
2020760-6 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

412 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 412 fires within 5 miles of Turbeville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,204 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 102 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 burning158
Missing data/not specified/undetermined129
Arson/incendiarism102
Equipment and vehicle use10
Smoking4
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

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
6 September 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use14 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clarendon County

Storms near this place

45 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Turbeville in 45 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 23 thunderstorm wind, 17 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
April 1997Tornado (F1)Turbeville2 hurtno account filed
April 2011HailTurbeville$60,000Sheriff reported baseball to softball size hail at FIRE STATION 2. Time estimated from radar.
April 2011HailTurbeville$30,000Sheriff reported golf ball size hail in Turbeville.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindTurbeville$15,000Public reported wind damage at Olive Grove Church, and nearby area, near Turbeville. Submitted photos of damage included a downed tree and numerous downed tree limbs, damage to columns at the church, toppled brick signs and tombstones, significant damage to metal buildings, carports, fences, playground equipment, etc. Some small hail was still on the ground the next morning.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindTurbeville$8,000Sheriff reported trees down Ann Worsham and Burnt Branch roads.
April 2011HailTurbeville$5,000Sheriff reported quarter size hail just north of Turbeville.
April 2012Thunderstorm WindTurbeville$3,000Public reported several trees down just northeast of Turbeville.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindTurbeville$3,000Sheriff reported trees down on Puddin Swamp road.
March 2009Thunderstorm WindTurbeville$3,000Sheriff reported trees down on Diles Bay road.
January 2010Thunderstorm WindTurbeville$2,000DOT reported several trees down in the Turbeville area.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindTurbeville$2,000DOT reported several trees down on SC Hwys 19, 37, and 53.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindTurbeville$1,000Sheriff reported a couple of trees down in the Turbeville area.
May 2025HailTurbeville-Clarendon County dispatch received a report of quarter sized hail near the intersection of Coker Rd and Hicks Rd, SE of Turbeville.
August 2024Flash FloodTurbeville-Clarendon County 911 call center received a call regarding developing flooding near 1208 Seloc Road. Water has filled up ditches on both sides of the road and water starting to cover the roadway.
August 2023Tornado (EF1)Turbeville-NWS Survey confirmed brief EF-1 tornado with 90 mph winds spawned by Hurricane Idalia near Turbeville. It touched down southwest of Graham Road, moving northwest snapping and uprooting multiple trees along it's .73 mile long path, including along Olanta Highway.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindTurbeville-SCDOT office in Clarendon Co reported a tree down on US Hwy 301 in Turbeville. Time estimated.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindTurbeville-Trees down near the intersection of William Gibbons Rd and US Hwy 301.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindTurbeville-Power lines down on Smith St in Turbeville. Tree limbs down throughout the area.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindTurbeville-Public reported trees and limbs down on US Hwy 378. One tree fell across a storage shed.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindTurbeville-Trees down in Turbeville.
April 2012HailTurbeville-Public reported quarter size hail just northeast of Turbeville.
June 2010HailTurbeville-Sheriff reported penny size hail southeast of Turbeville.
May 2009HailTurbeville-Post Office reported 3/4 inch hail in the area.
March 2008Thunderstorm WindTurbeville-DOT reported several trees down west of Turbeville on secondary roads.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindTurbeville-Electric Coop reported trees down and some power outages in the Turbeville area.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindTurbeville-Sheriff Dispatch reported trees down along Raccoon Lane.
June 2008HailTurbeville-Highway Patrol reported nickel size hail at the intersection of I-95 and Highway 378.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindTurbeville-DOT reported a few trees down on SC Hwy 19.
May 2006HailTurbeville-Public reported quarter size hail.
May 2006HailTurbeville-Dispatch reported 1 inch hail report from off duty fireman.
May 2006HailTurbeville-Public reported penny size hail.
May 2006HailTurbeville-EMS reported quarter size hail.
May 2006HailTurbeville-Dispatch reported quarter size hail south of Turbeville with second storm.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindTurbeville-Highway dept reported trees down on secondary hwy 187. The roof of a barn was also partially blown off.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindTurbeville-Emergency ops reported trees down on hwy 378 near Turbeville.
July 2001Flash FloodTurbeville-Sheriff reported street flooding and one home flooded. Five inches of rain were unofficially reported.
April 2000HailTurbeville-Post Office reported 1 inch hail in the Turbeville area.
May 2000HailTurbeville-Sheriff reported 1 inch hail.
May 2000HailTurbeville-EPD reported golf ball size hail in Turbeville.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindTurbeville-EPD reported trees down and two farm buildings damaged.
September 1999Flash FloodTurbeville-Sheriff and EPD reported flooding across hwy 527 between hwys 19 and 36.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindTurbeville-Post Office and Black River Electric reported trees and powerlines down in and around Turbeville causing 2 hr power outages in some areas.
September 1997Thunderstorm WindTurbeville-Sheriff reported several trees down and 2-4 inches of standing water on roadways.
November 1995Thunderstorm WindTurbeville-Trees were knocked down. During the afternoon of November 11th, a line of severe thunderstorms developed quickly just ahead of an advancing cold front. The line began its development from 50 S of Charlotte to 50 W of Augusta. A 55 kt low level at 3kft pushed the line rapidly eastward across the state. These strong low level winds mixed down to the ground in the thunderstorms and knocked down trees and power lines.
April 1997HailTurbeville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clarendon 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
Seloc0.8 miles16
Beards Crossroads2.3 miles16
New Zion3.3 miles16
Sardinia5.2 miles16
Central Crossroads5.6 miles8
Barrineau Crossroads5.9 miles8
Union Crossroads6.4 miles8
Gable6.6 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 TurbevilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3306731The 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 1251230. 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.