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Williams, South Carolina

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Smoaks census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29493. The Survey maps it on the Williams quadrangle. 98 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 105 feet above sea level.

Williams within Colleton County

On record in Williams

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Williams fell from 117 to 98 between 2010 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
2010117
202098-19 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 18 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

335 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 335 fires within 5 miles of Williams between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,633 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 74 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 burning115
Missing data/not specified/undetermined105
Arson/incendiarism74
Equipment and vehicle use23
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2005Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2005Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colleton County

Storms near this place

23 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Williams in 23 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 20 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. 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
June 2009Thunderstorm WindWilliams$5,000Numerous trees were reported down in Williams, South Carolina.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindWilliams$3,000The Colleton county Emergency Manager reported several trees and power lines down around Ruffin, South Carolina.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindWilliams$2,500A Colleton County emergency manager reported power lines down along Garris Avenue near Till Lane.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindWilliams$1,000Colleton County dispatch reported a tree down in the roadway at Mill Pond Road and Lowcountry Highway.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWilliams$1,000Colleton County Emergency Management reported a tree down and in the roadway near 800 Smyly Road. A vehicle collided with the tree at this location but there were no reported injuries.
April 2013Thunderstorm WindWilliams$1,000Law Enforcement reported trees in the roadway near the intersection of Lumber road and Cutler road.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindWilliams$1,000SC Highway Patrol reported a tree down on Highway 21 near the SC Department of Transportation.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindWilliams$1,000Dispatch Center reported a tree down at on Highway 21 at Risher Road.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindWilliams$1,000Tree down. Tree down also reported down in Ruffin.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindWilliams-A Colleton County emergency manager reported a tree down along Lumber Road near the intersection with Avalon Drive.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindWilliams-A Colleton County emergency manager reported a tree down and blocking both lanes of the 3400 Block of Williams Road.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWilliams-Colleton County Emergency Management reported a tree down at the intersection of Garris Avenue and Williams Road, blocking both lanes. Another tree was down around the 2600 block of Williams Road and was also blocking both lanes.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWilliams-Colleton County Emergency Management reported a tree down along the 1700 block of George Warren Drive.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindWilliams-A Colleton County emergency manager reported a tree down along the 1700 Block of George Warren Drive.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindWilliams-Law enforcement reported a tree down near the intersection of Mill Pond Road and Low Country Highway.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindWilliams-Law Enforcement reported a tree and powerline down along Mount Carmel Road. A Vehicle hit the tree. Injuries and damage unknown.
March 2002Thunderstorm WindWilliams-Afew large trees were down.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindWilliams-Several Trees down.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindWilliams-Trees down.
August 1999Thunderstorm WindWilliams-Large tree blown down and lumber shed blown over.
May 2006HailWilliams-no account filed
March 1999HailWilliams-no account filed
April 1999HailWilliams-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Colleton 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
Colleton2.1 miles18
Ruffin2.5 miles18
Smyly2.6 miles18
Caldwell3.3 miles18
Padgetts3.5 miles18
Bells Crossroads3.9 miles16
Smoaks4.1 miles18
Pattillo (historical)5.3 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 WilliamsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2562748The 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 1231926. 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.

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.