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Wilkinson Heights, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Orangeburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29115. The Survey maps it on the Orangeburg North quadrangle. 1,946 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 223 feet above sea level.

Wilkinson Heights within Orangeburg County

Population over time

3 figures

Wilkinson Heights fell from 3,068 to 1,946 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
20003,068
20102,493-575 (-19%)
20201,946-547 (-22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

378 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 378 fires within 5 miles of Wilkinson Heights between 1992 and 2020, burning about 938 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 11 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 burning221
Missing data/not specified/undetermined78
Equipment and vehicle use26
Misuse of fire by a minor17
Smoking15
Arson/incendiarism11
Natural5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2019Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2019Debris and open burning4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1997Debris 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Wilkinson Heights: 1 unknown, 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
Edisto Asphalt Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
No. 6 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working 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
College Terrace0.3 miles18
Corona Park0.6 miles18
Quicktown0.6 miles18
Brookdale0.6 miles13
New Brookland0.8 miles13
Jones Terrace0.8 miles18
North Brookdale0.9 miles13
Whittaker Estates1.1 miles18

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 Wilkinson HeightsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3313653The 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 1242895. 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.