Wilson, South Carolina
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Manning East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29102. The Survey maps it on the Foreston quadrangle.
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 Manning quadrangle1:48000
- 1921 USGS Manning quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1944 USGS Manning 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 Foreston quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Sumter quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Sumter quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
430 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 430 fires within 5 miles of Wilson between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,368 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 94 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 151 |
| Debris and open burning | 149 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 94 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 14 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 7 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilson in 6 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilson | $50,000 | EM reported a microburst took down trees and blew a steeple off a church. Underpinning was also torn off a mobile home and several framed homes and the church had shingles blown off. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilson | $6,000 | Santee Electric Coop reported several trees and powerlines down along highway 261. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilson | - | Clarendon EM reported several trees down in and around the Manning area. Time estimated by radar. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilson | - | Santee Electric Coop reported a tree on power lines at the intersection of Dozier Mallett Road and Mallett Road. |
| February 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilson | - | Trees fell on a power line along US Hwy 521 SE of Manning. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilson | - | Trees down on Kingstree Hwy and S Brewington Rd. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baggette Crossroads | 2.7 miles | 16 | |
| Bloomville | 3.0 miles | 16 | |
| Foreston | 3.7 miles | 17 | |
| Brewington (historical) | 4.3 miles | 17 | |
| Country Club Estates | 4.4 miles | 16 | |
| Bonanza (historical) | 4.9 miles | 17 | |
| Manning | 5.4 miles | 16 | |
| James Crossroads | 5.6 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 Wilson | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22073143 | 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 1251462. 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.










