BlockBefore

Vance, South Carolina

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Santee-Vance census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29163. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Vance quadrangle. 128 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 131 feet above sea level.

Vance within Orangeburg County

Population over time

3 figures

Vance fell from 208 to 128 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
2000208
2010170-38 (-18%)
2020128-42 (-25%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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

455 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 455 fires within 5 miles of Vance between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,208 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 52 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 burning169
Missing data/not specified/undetermined156
Arson/incendiarism52
Smoking26
Misuse of fire by a minor22
Equipment and vehicle use20
Natural6
Fireworks2
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1

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 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Debris and open burning30 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Natural4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2006Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orangeburg County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Vance: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Evans PitClayProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Orangeburg County

Storms near this place

14 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vance in 14 storm reports between 1998 and 2019: 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 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
March 1998Tornado (F2)Vance$220,000An F2 tornado did major damage to a horse farm and race track. Several of the horses were injured. Debris from the horse farm was found as far as 3 miles away. Major damage was also done to a home and a couple of mobile homes. Minor damage was also done to a couple of mobile and permanent homes.
September 2014Tornado (EF0)Vance$6,000NWS storm survey found an EF0 tornado touched down 3 times producing crop damage and taking 2/3 of the roof off of a mobile home. Other damage was done to yard items around the home.
March 2009Thunderstorm WindVance$6,000Electric company reported several trees and powerlines down on highway 6 near vance.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindVance$2,000DOT reported a couple of trees down on Lodge Hall Street.
July 2017HailVance$100Public reported, via social media, pea to dime size hail in Vance.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindVance-Tree in roadway Hwy 210 near Oregon St. Time estimated.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindVance-Large limbs and branches were knocked down, a shed was destroyed, and a metal carport was lifted and moved, on Mill Creek Rd in Vance.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindVance-Trees down on 9843 Old Number Six Hwy.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindVance-Public estimated wind gusts of 50 to 60 MPH at Mill Creek Marina.
June 2010HailVance-Public reported penny size hail.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindVance-Vance Post Office reported some large limbs down in the town.
May 2006HailVance-Public reported nickel size hail.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindVance-Puclic reported trees down and large hail.
July 2002HailVance-EOC reported dime size hail in Vance.

Every storm recorded in Orangeburg 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
Bull Station1.2 miles17
Mill Creek1.4 miles17
Milligans2.5 miles17
Saint Julian3.6 miles17
Dantzler4.4 miles18
Santee4.4 miles17
Green Town4.6 miles17
Eutawville4.8 miles17

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 VanceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1930967The 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 1231881. 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.