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Woodford, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29112. The Survey maps it on the Swansea quadrangle. 161 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 381 feet above sea level.

Woodford within Orangeburg County

Population over time

3 figures

Woodford fell from 196 to 161 between 2000 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
2000196
2010185-11 (-6%)
2020161-24 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

256 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 256 fires within 5 miles of Woodford between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,109 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined104
Debris and open burning92
Equipment and vehicle use18
Arson/incendiarism11
Natural9
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Smoking6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes2
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
5 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2014Natural1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1997Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2014Other causes3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 1998Debris and open burning3.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 August 1999Natural2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orangeburg County

Storms near this place

10 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodford in 10 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 hail, 1 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
December 2015FloodWoodford$3,000Roadway flooding along Bush River Road in Newberry County.
March 2011Thunderstorm WindWoodford$2,000DOT reported a few trees down on U.S 321 from Swansea to Woodford.
January 2023Tornado (EF0)Woodford-A tornado that touched down in Lexington County, near the intersection of Cedar Creek|Road and US Highway 178, and reached EF-1 intensity, weakened into an EF-0 before|crossing into Orangeburg County just southeast of the intersection of Jones Wire Road|and Woodford Road. The tornado continued in Orangeburg County, causing EF-0 damage with downed trees along the path, as it crossed Savannah Highway (US Hwy 321) then dissipated just northeast of the intersection of Hoffman Road and Lightning Hill Road.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindWoodford-Tree down at 11434 North Rd, near Salem Baptist Church, NW of North. Time estimated.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindWoodford-DOT reported tree down on Hayden Rd near Woodford. Time estimated.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindWoodford-Several trees were downed and a greenhouse was damaged. Dime size hail also fell. Strickland Rd. Time estimated.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindWoodford-Highway Patrol reported trees down in the area of Highway 178 and also Chavis Road approximately 2 miles north of the town of North.
August 2007HailWoodford-Public reported golf ball size hail on hwy 3 near the intersection of Lexington, Aiken, and Orangeburg counties. Golf ball size hail was reported to have fallen within the 3 counties near their intersection.
July 2002HailWoodford-EOC reported dime size hail in Woodford.
February 1999Tornado (F0)Woodford-Sheriff reported tornado touchdown southwest of Woodford. Damage survey revieled an F0 touched down near a church and went into the woods.

Every storm recorded in Orangeburg 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
North3.6 miles13
Livingston7.9 miles13
Sawyerdale8.3 miles13
Boiling Spring (historical)8.5 miles13
Wolfton8.7 miles13
Neeses9.4 miles13
Pine Hill10.6 miles13
Oakmont10.8 miles13

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 WoodfordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2404078The 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 1231936. 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.