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.
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.
- Seneca Cotton Milllisted 2022 · 0.2 miles away
Population over time
3 figuresUtica 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,322 | |
| 2010 | 1,489 | +167 (+13%) |
| 2020 | 1,347 | -142 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 16 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.
- 1888 USGS Pickens quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Pickens quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Seneca quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
137 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 48 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 37 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 15 |
| Smoking | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 September 2001 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 September 2009 | Smoking | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 14 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 14 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 August 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 August 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 11 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Garnet Prospect | Garnet | Prospect | ||
| J B Smith Prospect | Mica | Prospect | ||
| John Dyer Prospect | Mica | Prospect | ||
| Leroy Prospect | Mica | Prospect | ||
| Parker Deposit | Mica | Occurrence | ||
| Cochran Mine | Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Cochran Placer | Gold | Past Producer | 1908 | |
| Pickens Prospect | Gold | Unknown | Vein | |
| Sitton Prospect | Gold | Prospect | ||
| Sloan Placer | Gold | Unknown | Placer |
Storms near this place
1 since 2010Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Utica | - | 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. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Meadows | 0.6 miles | 16 | |
| Bishop Heights | 0.7 miles | 16 | |
| Jordonia | 0.7 miles | 16 | |
| Walnut Grove | 0.7 miles | 16 | |
| Doris Heights | 0.9 miles | 16 | |
| Ridgeview | 1.0 miles | 16 | |
| Woodfarm Acres | 1.3 miles | 16 | |
| Seneca | 1.3 miles | 16 |
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 Utica | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2144739 | 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 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.






