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Winnsboro Mills, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Winnsboro South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29180. The Survey maps it on the Winnsboro Mills quadrangle. 1,632 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 561 feet above sea level.

Winnsboro Mills within Fairfield County

On record in Winnsboro Mills

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 within a mile 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Winnsboro Mills fell from 1,898 to 1,632 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
20101,898
20201,632-266 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

194 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 194 fires within 5 miles of Winnsboro Mills between 1992 and 2019, burning about 592 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined78
Debris and open burning49
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Equipment and vehicle use14
Natural14
Arson/incendiarism12
Smoking6
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2009Debris and open burning3.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use20 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fairfield County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Winnsboro Mills: 3 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Granite, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Rion QuarryGranite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, DimensionUnknownIgneous
Hobbs QuarryGranite, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerIgneous
Johnson QuarryGranite, Stone, DimensionPast ProducerIgneous Intrusion
Superior Stone Co. QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Fairfield County

Storms near this place

4 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winnsboro Mills in 4 storm reports between 2015 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
July 2015Thunderstorm WindWinnsboro Mills$2,000Dispatch reported trees down along 9th Street in Winnsboro Mills.
July 2024Flash FloodWinnsboro Mills-Fairfield County Dispatch reported flash flooding causing cars to stall at the intersection of Old Camden Rd and Columbia Rd.
December 2024Thunderstorm WindWinnsboro Mills-SCEMD employee relayed information from Fairfield County Dispatch of multiple closed roads closed due to downed trees, specifically around 303 Palmetto Ave in Winnsboro. Time estimated by radar.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindWinnsboro Mills-Winnsboro PD reported a tree down on a power line on Marion Ave. Time estimated.

Every storm recorded in Fairfield 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
Rockton1.0 miles15
Winnsboro1.3 miles15
Simpson4.2 miles15
Rion4.3 miles14
Adger5.6 miles14
Lebanon7.2 miles14
Ridgeway7.6 miles15
Flint Hill7.8 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 Winnsboro MillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2738376The 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 1231932. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.