Manville South Carolina Map

About Manville, South Carolina

Manville is a locality in Lee County, South Carolina, United States. It is a small community with a population of 471. The population density is 66.9 people per km². Manville is located at 34.1540°N, 80.3034°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 29010.

Manville occupies a quiet stretch of the South Carolina interior where the dark, tangled arteries of the Scape Ore Swamp dictate the movement of the earth and the slow drainage of the fields. It lies 16.3 miles north of Sumter, SC (from Sumter, SC: bearing 8°T), and is situated 5.4 miles southwest of Bishopville. The air here holds a heavy, pressurized stillness, particularly in the humid afternoons when the heat rises from the sandy soil to blur the edges of the horizon. Two miles away, the water of McGrits Millpond remains a stagnant, silver mirror, reflecting the heavy canopy of pine and hardwood that dominates the low-lying terrain. While the distant Sand Hills provide a faint, hazy contour to the western sky, the immediate landscape is defined by the flat, unyielding persistence of the swamp and the dense, encroaching woodland that seems to reclaim any clearing left unattended by the plow.

Manville traces its lineage to the labor of the soil, grounded in an agrarian history that continues to shape the local economy through the rhythm of seasonal harvests and the maintenance of timber tracts. The legacy of the land is preserved in the nearby expanse of Ashwood Park, which serves as a quiet buffer between the encroaching modern infrastructure and the wild, tangled reality of the backcountry. Life in Manville moves with a deliberate, singular focus, dictated more by the agricultural cycles and the occasional flooding of the lowlands than by the frantic pace of the outside world. There is a distinct, solitary beauty in the way the twilight settles over the fields, turning the dusty roads to slate and silencing the noise of the day, leaving only the persistent, rhythmic hum of the insects rising from the damp margins of the nearby waterways.

About This Manville Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Manville, South Carolina. Coordinates: 34.154044, -80.303408. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Manville includes the ZIP code (29010), telephone area code (803, 839), county seat of Lee County (Bishopville), and school district assignment (Lee County School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.