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.
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
- Tom Williams Houselisted 1973
Population over time
2 figuresWilliams 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 117 | |
| 2020 | 98 | -19 (-16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 18 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.
- 1919 USGS Lodge quadrangle1:62500
- 1920 USGS Lodge quadrangle1:48000
- 1921 USGS Lodge quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1943 USGS Lodge quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Orangeburg quadrangle1:125000
- 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
- 1982 USGS Williams quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Saint George quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Saint George quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
335 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 115 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 105 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 74 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 23 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 8 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 September 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 September 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
23 since 1999Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williams | $5,000 | Numerous trees were reported down in Williams, South Carolina. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williams | $3,000 | The Colleton county Emergency Manager reported several trees and power lines down around Ruffin, South Carolina. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williams | $2,500 | A Colleton County emergency manager reported power lines down along Garris Avenue near Till Lane. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williams | $1,000 | Colleton County dispatch reported a tree down in the roadway at Mill Pond Road and Lowcountry Highway. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williams | $1,000 | Colleton 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 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williams | $1,000 | Law Enforcement reported trees in the roadway near the intersection of Lumber road and Cutler road. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williams | $1,000 | SC Highway Patrol reported a tree down on Highway 21 near the SC Department of Transportation. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williams | $1,000 | Dispatch Center reported a tree down at on Highway 21 at Risher Road. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williams | $1,000 | Tree down. Tree down also reported down in Ruffin. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williams | - | A Colleton County emergency manager reported a tree down along Lumber Road near the intersection with Avalon Drive. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williams | - | A Colleton County emergency manager reported a tree down and blocking both lanes of the 3400 Block of Williams Road. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williams | - | 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 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williams | - | Colleton County Emergency Management reported a tree down along the 1700 block of George Warren Drive. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williams | - | A Colleton County emergency manager reported a tree down along the 1700 Block of George Warren Drive. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williams | - | Law enforcement reported a tree down near the intersection of Mill Pond Road and Low Country Highway. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williams | - | Law Enforcement reported a tree and powerline down along Mount Carmel Road. A Vehicle hit the tree. Injuries and damage unknown. |
| March 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williams | - | Afew large trees were down. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williams | - | Several Trees down. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williams | - | Trees down. |
| August 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williams | - | Large tree blown down and lumber shed blown over. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Williams | - | no account filed |
| March 1999 | Hail | Williams | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Hail | Williams | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colleton | 2.1 miles | 18 | |
| Ruffin | 2.5 miles | 18 | |
| Smyly | 2.6 miles | 18 | |
| Caldwell | 3.3 miles | 18 | |
| Padgetts | 3.5 miles | 18 | |
| Bells Crossroads | 3.9 miles | 16 | |
| Smoaks | 4.1 miles | 18 | |
| Pattillo (historical) | 5.3 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 Williams | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2562748 | 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 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.












