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Ulmer, 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 29849. The Survey maps it on the Sycamore quadrangle. 65 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 161 feet above sea level.

Ulmer within Allendale County

On record in Ulmer

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

2 figures

Ulmer fell from 88 to 65 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
201088
202065-23 (-26%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

89 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Ulmer between 1992 and 2019, burning about 390 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 16 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 burning34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Arson/incendiarism16
Natural9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Other causes1
Smoking1

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
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2004Naturalunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2000Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 1997Natural3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 2011Natural7.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Allendale County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Ulmer: 1 unknown, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Cleckley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
Ila SmithSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer1981
Pit No. 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Allendale 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
Hayes Crossroads4.0 miles15
Sycamore4.3 miles15
Tuten (historical)5.2 miles15
Mathis (historical)6.5 miles15
Grays Crossroads6.6 miles15
Seigling6.7 miles15
Jennys7.0 miles15
Allendale8.1 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 UlmerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3240535The 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 1227276. 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.