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.
Population over time
3 figuresVance 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 208 | |
| 2010 | 170 | -38 (-18%) |
| 2020 | 128 | -42 (-25%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 17 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.
- 1920 USGS Eutawville quadrangle1:48000
- 1921 USGS Eutawville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1943 USGS Eutawville quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Vance quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Saint George quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Saint George quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
455 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 169 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 156 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 52 |
| Smoking | 26 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 22 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 20 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1997 | Natural | 4.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evans Pit | Clay | Producer | Sedimentary |
Storms near this place
14 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 1998 | Tornado (F2) | Vance | $220,000 | An 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 2014 | Tornado (EF0) | Vance | $6,000 | NWS 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 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vance | $6,000 | Electric company reported several trees and powerlines down on highway 6 near vance. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vance | $2,000 | DOT reported a couple of trees down on Lodge Hall Street. |
| July 2017 | Hail | Vance | $100 | Public reported, via social media, pea to dime size hail in Vance. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vance | - | Tree in roadway Hwy 210 near Oregon St. Time estimated. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vance | - | 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 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vance | - | Trees down on 9843 Old Number Six Hwy. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vance | - | Public estimated wind gusts of 50 to 60 MPH at Mill Creek Marina. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Vance | - | Public reported penny size hail. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vance | - | Vance Post Office reported some large limbs down in the town. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Vance | - | Public reported nickel size hail. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vance | - | Puclic reported trees down and large hail. |
| July 2002 | Hail | Vance | - | EOC reported dime size hail in Vance. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bull Station | 1.2 miles | 17 | |
| Mill Creek | 1.4 miles | 17 | |
| Milligans | 2.5 miles | 17 | |
| Saint Julian | 3.6 miles | 17 | |
| Dantzler | 4.4 miles | 18 | |
| Santee | 4.4 miles | 17 | |
| Green Town | 4.6 miles | 17 | |
| Eutawville | 4.8 miles | 17 |
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 Vance | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1930967 | 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 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.










