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Batesburg-Leesville, South Carolina

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Batesburg-Leesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29006. The Survey maps it on the Batesburg quadrangle. 5,270 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 646 feet above sea level.

Batesburg-Leesville within Lexington County

On record in Batesburg-Leesville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 12 of 15 shown

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Every listing in Lexington County

Population over time

3 figures

Batesburg-Leesville fell from 5,517 to 5,270 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20005,517
20105,362-155 (-3%)
20205,270-92 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

94 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Batesburg-Leesville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 394 acres in total. 7 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
Debris and open burning36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
9 September 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1997Debris and open burning20 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 2002Naturalunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lexington County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Batesburg-Leesville: 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Granite, Stone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Marlowe CreekClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Whittle QuarryGranite, Stone, DimensionUnknownIgneous

Every working recorded in Lexington 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
Batesburg0.6 miles11
Leesville1.3 miles11
Kneece3.0 miles11
Fredonia4.2 miles12
Mims5.0 miles12
Chinquapin Falls5.9 miles11
Hall (historical)6.2 miles12
Summit6.2 miles12

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.

Wikipedia article on Batesburg-LeesvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2139658The 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 1692657. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.