Windsor, South Carolina
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Windsor census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29856. The Survey maps it on the Windsor quadrangle. 115 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 387 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresWindsor fell from 121 to 115 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 | 121 | |
| 2020 | 115 | -6 (-5%) |
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 Talatha quadrangle1:48000
- 1921 USGS Talatha quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1943 USGS Augusta East quadrangle1:125000
- 1943 USGS Talatha 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
- 1965 USGS Windsor quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Barnwell quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
494 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 494 fires within 5 miles of Windsor between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,151 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 41 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 | 235 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 104 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 41 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 37 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 23 |
| Natural | 21 |
| Smoking | 15 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Other causes | 6 |
| Fireworks | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | WINDSOR ROAD |
| 30 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
20 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Windsor in 20 storm reports between 1995 and 2017: 14 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windsor | $20,000 | One home deroofed, also car damaged by falling tree excess rainfall |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windsor | $4,000 | Sheriff reported trees down on State Park Road. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windsor | $4,000 | Sheriff reported trees down on Colbert Bridge Road. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windsor | $3,000 | Sheriff reported trees down at the intersection of Hwy 78 and Cedar road. |
| January 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windsor | $2,000 | Public reported numerous small limbs down along with one dead Oak tree near Windsor. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windsor | $500 | Highway Patrol reported a tree down in Windsor. |
| September 2017 | Heavy Rain | Windsor | - | CoCoRaHS observer measured a total rainfall amount of 5.75 inches 3 miles ESE of Windsor. |
| July 2017 | Hail | Windsor | - | Public reported dime to quarter size hail near the intersection of Centerwood Rd and Windsor Rd. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windsor | - | Public reported a tree down, along with several large branches, near the intersection of Centerwood Rd and Windsor Rd. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windsor | - | Trees down at the intersection of Highway 78 and Cedar Road. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Windsor | - | Public reported nickel size hail at the Windsor General Store. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Windsor | - | Public reported penny size hail. |
| August 2007 | Hail | Windsor | - | EM reported golf ball size hail. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windsor | - | EM reported a stall and large barn destroyed. |
| January 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windsor | - | Emergency Manager reported that a metal gazebo was blown onto the roof of a home. |
| June 2004 | Hail | Windsor | - | Public called and reported nickel size hail covering the ground. The event lasted 20 minutes. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windsor | - | Electric coop reported trees and powerlines down in Windsor. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windsor | - | Public reported billboards blown down in Windsor. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windsor | - | Sheriff reported trees down. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windsor | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apia (historical) | 2.0 miles | 15 | |
| Mount Beulah | 2.9 miles | 17 | |
| Spring Branch (historical) | 4.2 miles | 16 | |
| White Pond | 4.4 miles | 16 | |
| Oakwood | 4.5 miles | 15 | |
| Kitchings Mill | 6.9 miles | 12 | |
| Montmorenci | 7.2 miles | 18 | |
| Couchton | 8.0 miles | 15 |
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 Windsor | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3240520 | 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 1227647. 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.










