Dale
Census-designated place
CountryUnited States
StateSouth Carolina
CountyBeaufort
Area
[1]
 • Total2.37 sq mi (6.14 km2)
 • Land2.37 sq mi (6.14 km2)
 • Water0.00 sq mi (0.00 km2)
Population
 (2020)[2]
 • Total633
 • Density266.86/sq mi (103.04/km2)
Time zoneUTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (EDT)
FIPS code45-18340

Dale, South Carolina, is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located in northern Beaufort County in the southern corner of the state of South Carolina, U.S.A. It was first listed as a CDP in the 2020 census with a population of 633.[3]

It is located approximately five miles north of Beaufort, South Carolina on U.S. Route 21, designated the Trask Parkway in that area. The zip code for Dale, South Carolina, is 29914 and it is the hometown of NFL (Tampa Bay Buccaneers) DB Dee Delaney.[4]

History

Railroad

Dale was formerly on the alignment of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad's Carolina Division low-level main line, constructed from 1915 and opened December 31, 1917. This rail route passed to the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad with the July 1, 1967 merger of the SAL and longtime rival Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, becoming the Charleston Subdivision, and the line downgraded with most traffic rerouting over the former ACL alignment to the west. The "East Carolina Subdivision", as it was colloquially called, was abandoned by stages, with the first portion removed north of Dale, between Lobeco and Charleston, after October 1, 1967. Following the April 21, 1971 destruction of the old SAL lift bridge over the Savannah River by a ship in foggy conditions, the southern connection into Savannah was cut and the rail line removed between Coosaw and Pritchardville, south of Dale, in 1978. Most of the remaining line was lifted in 1982. Portions of the alignment have been converted into the New River Linear Trail hiking trail.[5]

Incidents

On Friday December 13, 1935, Major Arthur K. Ladd, assigned as the assistant supply officer for the General Headquarters Air Force, Langley Field, Virginia, was piloting Boeing P-12F, 32-100, c/n 1676,[6][7] '60', the 24th of 25 of the model built, of the 36th Pursuit Squadron, from Langley Field to Miami, Florida,[8] and was killed, at ~1400 hrs. EST, when the biplane fighter crashed into a swamp near the Wimbee River on Heyward Island, ~3 miles E of Dale, South Carolina. A front-page news item in The State, Columbia, South Carolina, the next day, observed that the plane's two machine guns were badly broken.[9] Fairbanks Air Base, Fairbanks, Alaska, under construction since August 1939 after the United States Congress appropriated $4 million to build a cold-weather testing base, was renamed Ladd Army Airfield on December 1, 1939, in Major Ladd's honor.[10][11]

Demographics

Historical population
CensusPop.Note%±
2020633—
U.S. Decennial Census[12]
2020[13][2]

2020 census

Dale CDP, South Carolina – Racial and Ethnic Composition
(NH = Non-Hispanic)
Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race.
Race / Ethnicity Pop 2020[13] % 2020
White alone (NH) 100 15.80%
Black or African American alone (NH) 491 77.57%
Native American or Alaska Native alone (NH) 2 0.32%
Asian alone (NH) 1 0.16%
Pacific Islander alone (NH) 0 0.00%
Some Other Race alone (NH) 5 0.79%
Mixed Race/Multi-Racial (NH) 16 2.53%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 18 2.84%
Total 633 100.00%

References

  1. ^ "ArcGIS REST Services Directory". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved October 15, 2022.
  2. ^ a b "Census Population API". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved October 15, 2022.
  3. ^ "Dale CDP, South Carolina". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved April 7, 2022.
  4. ^ United States Postal Service (2012). "USPS - Look Up a ZIP Code". Retrieved February 15, 2012.
  5. ^ http://www.abandonedrails.com/Charleston_Subdivision. Archived 2013-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ "1930-1937 USAAC Serial Numbers". www.joebaugher.com.
  7. ^ "Accident-Report.com - USAAF/USAF Accidents for South Carolina". www.accident-report.com. Archived from the original on February 8, 2019. Retrieved September 26, 2013.
  8. ^ Charleston, South Carolina, "Beaufort Crash Fatal To Officer - Major Arthur K. Ladd Dies in Airplane Fall on Heyward Island", The News and Courier, Saturday 14 December 1935, page 1.
  9. ^ Special, "Major A. K. Ladd Dies In Crash - Army Flier's Plane Falls Into Swamp in Beaufort County - Body to Marine Base.", The State, Columbia, South Carolina, Saturday 14 December 1935, Number 17,152, Part I, page 1.
  10. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on February 6, 2009. Retrieved December 12, 2010.((cite web)): CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  11. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 28, 2013. Retrieved September 26, 2013.((cite web)): CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  12. ^ "Decennial Census of Population and Housing by Decades". US Census Bureau.
  13. ^ a b "P2 HISPANIC OR LATINO, AND NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO BY RACE – 2020: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Dale CDP, South Carolina". United States Census Bureau.

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