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Airlee, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Chester census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29706. The Survey maps it on the Chester quadrangle.

Airlee within Chester County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

168 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 168 fires within 5 miles of Airlee between 1992 and 2020, burning about 401 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined89
Debris and open burning44
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Arson/incendiarism8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1
Smoking1

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
8 September 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2019Smoking3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 1998Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chester County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Airlee in 1 storm report in 2022: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2022Thunderstorm WindAirlee-Emergency manager reported numerous trees blown down around the city of Chester. One tree fell on high tension power lines on the south side of city and caused widespread power outages.

Every storm recorded in Chester 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
Stringfellow1.5 miles13
Lakewood1.7 miles13
York Terrace1.9 miles13
Quail Hollow1.9 miles13
Eureka Mills2.1 miles13
Eureka Mill2.1 miles13
Rolling Hills Estates2.4 miles13
Cedar Grove2.5 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.

Wikidata item Q122540126The 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 1230621. 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.