https://www.johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/938c9486ac832dbbe3eda93301f85a1c.pdf 1bc020322b4d7e059556b89d0e236960 PDF Text Text - DJ/9~6 7~~~~~-3- dJ@ [){] [K]~@ [K]W ~ OJL~ south carolina JUN 7 1984 �LOCATION As depicted on the cover, Johnsonville is in the eastern section of the state in Florence County. Charleston, South Carolina's busiest port, is 85 miles south. Columbia is 100 miles west and Greenville is 196 miles northwest. Johnsonville is 309 miles east of Atlanta; 645 miles south of New York; and 2,832 miles east of San Francisco. Johnsonville High School Johnsonville Methodist Church POPULATION The 1980 census population of the city of Johnsonville was 1,421. This was a 12.2% increase from the 1970 population of 1,267. The population within a 15-mile radius is 21 ,938, and within a 30-mile radius is 235,494. Florence County had a 1980 census population of 110,163, - a 22.9% increase from the 1970 population of 89,636. The 1981 estimated county population is 110,900 and the 1990 projected population is 136,800. CLIMATE Johnsonville Volunteer Fire Department The climate in the Johnsonville area is temperate with a mean annual temperature of 63.7° F. The average temperature during January is 46.4° F, while the average July temperature is 80.4° F. The average relative humidity daily is 84% at 1:00 a.m.; 84% at 7:00a.m.; 57% at 1:00 p.m.; 74% at 7:00 p.m. The mean annual precipitation in the Johnsonville area is 53.59 inches and the average growing season is 234 days. The elevation of Johnsonville is 94 feet above sea level. COMMUNICATIONS Wellman Country Club The Weekly Observer is published in Hemingway, five miles distant, and provides local press coverage. Three daily papers also circulate in the community. Radio Station WKYB-AM is located at Hemingway, five miles away. Television reception is available from seven stations representing the three major networks and ETV. Cable �service is also available . Telephone service is provided by the General Telephone Company of the Southeast. GOVERNMENT Johnsonville has a mayor-council form of municipal government. The six council members serve staggered four-year terms. The mayor is elected for a four-year term. The city employs a City Administrator. Florence County is governed locally by a council/administrator form of government. Nine council members are elected for fouryear staggered terms. RECREATION AND CIVIC FACILITIES Recreation facilities in the community consist of school playgrounds and athletic fields, a municipal Junior Olympic swimming pool and the Wellman Country Club. Wellman Country Club offers an 18-hole championship golf course, tennis courts, pool, fishing lake and clubhouse with restaurant. Brown's Ferry Park, 30 miles away on the Black River, the Lynches River, one mile away, and the Great Pee Dee River, five miles away, offer areas for fishing, swimming and boating. POLICE AND FIRE POWER The Johnsonville Police Department has four full-time police officers and four full-time dispatchers. The department operates one radio equipped patrol car. The Johnsonville Volunteer Fire Department has 48 volunteer firemen who operate 10 trucks and service vehicles. Johnsonville's insurance rating is Class 6. Electric power is available to the community and surrounding areas from Carolina Power & Light Company (CP&L) and Santee Electric Cooperative. CP&L has firm generation capacity of 8000 megawatts and forecasts sufficient reserves to accommodate industrial growth in its service area. Economical power from nuclear energy accounts for a major portion of CP&L's generation and serves to keep the company's rates below the national average. Usually CP&L will install, at no cost to the customer, the necessary equipment to supply the electrical requirements. Alternative rate schedules are available to the industrial customer with the most economical rate for a specific application determined by the characteristics of the user's consumption. FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS Johnsonville has two banks to serve the financial needs of the community. The two banks have total assets of over $4.5 million. HOTELS & MOTELS Wellman Country Club in Johnsonville has villas with 12 bedrooms and 6 sitting rooms. A dining room seats about 200 and smaller meeting rooms are available. The facility caters to golf vacationers and to small groups for business meetings. Hemingway, located five miles away, has one motel. Numerous motel accommodations are available in Florence, 37 miles away, and Myrtle Beach, 43 miles away. Electric power for Santee Electric Cooperative is supplied by Central Electric Power Cooperative and South Carolina Public Service Authority. The generation capacity of plants in operation or under construction totals over 3,000 megawatts with approximately 73% produced from coal. Inter-tie connections are maintained with neighboring power supplies. CHURCHES There are five Protestant churches and one Catholic church in Johnsonville. A Jewish synagogue is located in Kingstree, 27 miles away. EDUCATION Johnsonville, which is included in Florence County District 5, has one elementary school, one middle school and one high school. The student/teacher ratio is 16.5 to 1, with 73 teachers and 1,207 students. Higher education facilities for the area are provided by , the Florence-Darlington Technical College, 40 miles away, Francis Marion College, 37 miles away, and the Williamsburg Technical College, 27 miles away. MEDICAL SERVICES Medical services for the community are provided by the 48-bed Lower Florence County Hospital at Lake City, 20 miles, and at the three hospitals in Florence, 37 miles. The community has one privately-practicing medical doctor, one privately-practicing optometrist, and one privatelypracticing dentist. FUELS Natural gas is supplied by Carolina Pipeline Company. There is an abundant supply of gas in this area available on a priority basis. Carolina Pipeline Company representatives are available to advise industry on matters relating to natural gas for industrial applications. WATER The community obtain its municipal water supply from three deep wells. The system is capable of supplying water at a maximum rate of 1,500,000 gallons per day, with a peak daily demand of 325,000 gallons. Treated water storage consists of two elevated tanks with 275,000 gallons of total capacity. Analysis of water supplied in the community: N/A Total solids 176 mg/L Alkalinity 1.5 mg/L Calcium 10 mg/L Hardness .1 mg/L Iron 8.9 pH �SEWER Johnsonville has two wastewater treatment plants to dispose of the community's wastewater. The combined total capacity of the systems is 3.075 million gallons per day, with combined average daily flow of 2.20 million gallons. LABOR Because labor information may change in this area, a current labor availability report prepared and kept up to date by the S. C. State Development Board will be furnished to prospective manufacturers at their request. The comprehensive report will include sources of recruitable labor, labor force characteristics, work force skill levels, earnings data and other pertinent information. The S. C. State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education has the resources to recruit and train workers in accordance with a company's entry criteria. This training is at little or no cost to the employer. A lead-time schedule is developed to coordinate recruiting, testing, selecting, and training. This assures that persons will be able to move from training to their respective jobs at the time the plant is ready for initial production. TRANSPORT AT ION Johnsonville is served by two interstate highways, 1-95 (34 miles) and 1-20, and two South Carolina highways. The community is served by the Seaboard System Railroad. Johnsonville is served by 34 authorized motor carriers, 14 of which have terminal facilities in Florence. The Florence City-County Airport, 37 miles from Johnsonville, otters regularly scheduled commuter service on Atlantis and Trans Southern Airways. Private aircraft utilize the Hemingway-Stuckey Airport, seven miles away, which has a 3,400-foot paved and lighted runway. Services available include RBn and Abvortac. The Lake City Airport, 20 miles away, has a 3,000-foot paved and lighted runway, and offers tiedowns, Unicorn, Abvortac, RBn and 100LL fuel. FOREIGN TRADE ZONE A Foreign Trade Zone is located in Summerville, South Carolina, 25 miles away from the Port of Charleston and 60 miles from the community. The Foreign Trade Zone allows manufacturers to store, manufacture or process goods without paying U. S. Customs duties or worrying about quota compliance. This Foreign Trade Zone is served by a multi-mode transportation network which provides excellent accessibility to market areas. TAXES The assessment on industrial property in South Carolina is 10.5% of the market value. New industry is granted a five-year moratorium on general county taxes with the exception of school taxes. The city tax rate is $4.30 per $100 of assessed value. The county rate is $13.73 per $100 of assessed value. The effective city tax rate (tax liability per $100 of market value) is $.45. The effective county rate is $1.44. The state has no tax on a manufacturer's inventories, goods-in-process, raw materials or finished goods. Treatment facilities or equipment of manufacturing plants which control water or air pollution are exempt from all property taxation. Freight Delivery Times: To: Atlanta Boston Chicago Houston New York St. Louis San Francisco By Truck: 1 day 4 days 3 days 3 days 3 days 2 days 5 days By Rail: 3 days 6 days 6 days 9 days 4 days 6 days 12 days INDUSTRIAL SITES Industrial sites are available in Johnsonville with a wide range of geographic and topographic features. In all probability, a site that will meet the needs of most industries' requirements has been identified, catalogued, and entered into the State Development Board's Computerized Site Selection System. Detailed site information is available and will be furnished upon request. MAJOR EMPLOYERS Name Dubois Dyeing Co., Inc. McCall Sheet Metal Works Johnsonville Manufacturing Co. Wellman Industries, Inc. Product or Service Space printing of carpet yarns Sheet metal products Ladies' sportswear Wool top, synthetic staple, lanolin, plastic molding resins, recycled plastics Employees 70 34 120 1,600 Jij j~/lijil lijiiji i1J ~ilil1 1 1 1 11111/l llllfllfilll 0 01 01 0033926 5 For Additional Information Contact: 3/84 SOUTH CAROLINA STATE DEVELOPMENT BOARD P.O. Box 927, Columbia, South Carolina 29202 (803) 758-3145 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource News Articles Subject The topic of the resource Newspaper and magazine articles. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. 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