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Utica, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Seneca census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29678. The Survey maps it on the Seneca quadrangle. 1,347 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 909 feet above sea level.

Utica within Oconee County

On record in Utica

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

3 figures

Utica grew from 1,322 to 1,347 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
20001,322
20101,489+167 (+13%)
20201,347-142 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

137 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 137 fires within 5 miles of Utica between 1992 and 2020, burning about 360 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 15 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 burning48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Arson/incendiarism15
Smoking9
Equipment and vehicle use9
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1
Fireworks1

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
5 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2016Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2001Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2009Smokingunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oconee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Utica: 5 prospects, 2 occurrences, 2 past producers, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Mica, Garnet. 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
Unnamed Garnet ProspectGarnetProspect
J B Smith ProspectMicaProspect
John Dyer ProspectMicaProspect
Leroy ProspectMicaProspect
Parker DepositMicaOccurrence
Cochran MineGoldPast Producer
Cochran PlacerGoldPast Producer1908
Pickens ProspectGoldUnknownVein
Sitton ProspectGoldProspect
Sloan PlacerGoldUnknownPlacer

Every working recorded in Oconee County

Storms near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Utica in 1 storm report in 2010: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2010Thunderstorm WindUtica-A tree was blown down on a power line on Goddard Ave and power lines were blown down on Ravenel Circle on the east side of Seneca.

Every storm recorded in Oconee 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
Southern Meadows0.6 miles16
Bishop Heights0.7 miles16
Jordonia0.7 miles16
Walnut Grove0.7 miles16
Doris Heights0.9 miles16
Ridgeview1.0 miles16
Woodfarm Acres1.3 miles16
Seneca1.3 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 UticaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2144739The 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 1231880. 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.