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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.

Windsor within Aiken County

Population over time

2 figures

Windsor 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.

YearPeople Change
2010121
2020115-6 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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

494 since 1992

Regional 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 burning235
Missing data/not specified/undetermined104
Arson/incendiarism41
Misuse of fire by a minor37
Equipment and vehicle use23
Natural21
Smoking15
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Other causes6
Fireworks4
Recreation and ceremony2

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
8 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2009Debris and open burning10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry CommissionWINDSOR ROAD
30 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Aiken County

Storms near this place

20 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1995Thunderstorm WindWindsor$20,000One home deroofed, also car damaged by falling tree excess rainfall
June 2010Thunderstorm WindWindsor$4,000Sheriff reported trees down on State Park Road.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindWindsor$4,000Sheriff reported trees down on Colbert Bridge Road.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindWindsor$3,000Sheriff reported trees down at the intersection of Hwy 78 and Cedar road.
January 2014Thunderstorm WindWindsor$2,000Public reported numerous small limbs down along with one dead Oak tree near Windsor.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindWindsor$500Highway Patrol reported a tree down in Windsor.
September 2017Heavy RainWindsor-CoCoRaHS observer measured a total rainfall amount of 5.75 inches 3 miles ESE of Windsor.
July 2017HailWindsor-Public reported dime to quarter size hail near the intersection of Centerwood Rd and Windsor Rd.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindWindsor-Public reported a tree down, along with several large branches, near the intersection of Centerwood Rd and Windsor Rd.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindWindsor-Trees down at the intersection of Highway 78 and Cedar Road.
June 2009HailWindsor-Public reported nickel size hail at the Windsor General Store.
May 2008HailWindsor-Public reported penny size hail.
August 2007HailWindsor-EM reported golf ball size hail.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindWindsor-EM reported a stall and large barn destroyed.
January 2006Thunderstorm WindWindsor-Emergency Manager reported that a metal gazebo was blown onto the roof of a home.
June 2004HailWindsor-Public called and reported nickel size hail covering the ground. The event lasted 20 minutes.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindWindsor-Electric coop reported trees and powerlines down in Windsor.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindWindsor-Public reported billboards blown down in Windsor.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindWindsor-Sheriff reported trees down.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindWindsor-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Aiken 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
Apia (historical)2.0 miles15
Mount Beulah2.9 miles17
Spring Branch (historical)4.2 miles16
White Pond4.4 miles16
Oakwood4.5 miles15
Kitchings Mill6.9 miles12
Montmorenci7.2 miles18
Couchton8.0 miles15

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 WindsorAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3240520The 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.