Extension Forest Resources 1997 Cash Receipts
from Timber Harvests by County
County

Nonindustrial
Private Forests/1


# of
Owners
%Forests
Owned
Stumpage
Value Paid
to All Owners
(a )
Delivered
Value of
Timber
(b)
Local Value
to Harvest
& Transport
(b-a)
Value
Rank by
County
(column b)
Rank
Among
Crops
Abbeville 2,236 63% $15,196,227 $27,337,188 $12,140,961 9 **1
Aiken 1,771 73% $12,257,260 $19,314,664 $7,057,404 23 *1
Allendale 600 72% $13,284,052 $19,821,772 $6,537,720 21 **1
Anderson 3,071 90% $9,240,306 $16,964,748 $7,724,443 26 *1
Bamberg 706 85% $8,512,400 $12,351,770 $3,839,370 36 1
Barnwell 540 44% $11,225,488 $15,311,935 $4,086,447 28 **1
Beaufort 452 70% $8,139,591 $11,582,670 $3,443,080 37 1
Berkeley 869 32% $8,480,575 $13,426,468 $4,945,893 33 1
Calhoun 729 95% $6,936,065 $10,460,669 $3,524,604 38 2
Charleston 773 57% $5,926,671 $9,288,161 $3,361,491 42 2
Cherokee 2,152 86% $5,662,548 $9,750,703 $4,088,154 40 **1
Chester 3,226 67% $15,966,148 $26,615,019 $10,648,871 10 **1
Chesterfield 1,195 66% $12,925,465 $22,248,744 $9,323,279 15 *1
Clarendon 852 77% $4,941,768 $7,626,706 $2,684,938 44 3
Colleton 1,604 70% $31,019,456 $46,153,708 $15,134,252 2 **1
Darlington 784 83% $5,264,560 $9,326,357 $4,061,797 41 3
Dillon 558 77% $7,503,835 $12,580,990 $5,077,155 35 2
Dorchester 876 68% $13,446,047 $20,449,402 $7,003,355 19 *1
Edgefield 2,778 68% $10,528,457 $14,616,778 $4,088,321 31 *1
Fairfield 4,667 73% $23,229,790 $36,763,402 $13,533,613 3 **1
Florence 1,203 82% $19,239,906 $29,723,266 $10,483,360 6 2
Georgetown 828 44% $20,552,393 $31,676,060 $11,123,667 5 **1
Greenville 3,956 96% $4,482,884 $7,902,826 $3,419,942 43 2
Greenwood 2,620 78% $14,756,902 $21,426,683 $6,669,781 16 **1
Hampton 884 70% $18,644,117 $27,844,035 $9,199,918 8 **1
Horry 1,705 76% $34,827,350 $50,420,555 $15,593,205 1 2
Jasper 969 65% $14,763,379 $23,509,905 $8,746,527 14 **1
Kershaw 5,064 81% $11,849,941 $19,852,891 $8,002,950 20 *1
Lancaster 3,643 83% $7,528,376 $12,771,454 $5,243,078 34 *1
Laurens 4,090 78% $16,009,071 $23,901,515 $7,892,445 13 **1
Lee 614 90% $1,363,907 $2,271,177 $907,270 46 5
Lexington 1,250 98% $7,328,243 $10,145,432 $2,817,189 39 2
McCormick 2,068 57% $12,108,234 $16,306,609 $4,198,374 12 **1
Marion 634 69% $16,505,391 $24,225,607 $7,720,216 25 1
Marlboro 382 38% $11,170,728 $17,002,470 $5,831,742 27 1
Newberry 2,853 59% $21,684,351 $35,523,062 $13,838,711 4 *1
Oconee 3,329 73% $8,607,124 $24,351,795 $15,744,671 11 *1
Orangeburg 1,700 85% $16,634,193 $28,357,747 $11,723,554 7 1
Pickens 3,253 92% $8,617,106 $18,572,210 $9,955,104 24 **1
Richland 1,129 75% $8,768,960 $14,204,713 $5,435,753 32 *1
Saluda 2,645 84% $15,178,270 $21,354,547 $6,176,277 17 *1
Spartanburg 4,159 95% $8,677,001 $15,140,651 $6,463,650 29 1
Sumter 885 75% $4,345,197 $7,059,565 $2,714,368 45 1
Union 2,535 57% $11,365,208 $19,510,663 $8,145,455 22 **1
Williamsburg 1,616 79% $12,634,381 $20,584,220 $7,949,839 18 2
York 3,729 85% $9,124,818 $14,980,661 $5,855,843 30 *1
All Counties 88,192 72% $566,454,137 $900,612,175 $334,158,038   1


/1 USFS, 1994 data.
 
* Exceeds combined value of all crops in county.
** Exceeds combined value of all crops, livestock, livestock products in county.

Compiled 1999 by Richard Harper Clemson University, Extension Forest Resources from 1997 data.