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Fort Lawn, South Carolina

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Fort Lawn census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29714. The Survey maps it on the Fort Lawn quadrangle. 962 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 545 feet above sea level.

Fort Lawn within Chester County

Population over time

2 figures

Fort Lawn grew from 895 to 962 between 2010 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
2010895
2020962+67 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

120 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of Fort Lawn between 1992 and 2019, burning about 284 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined49
Debris and open burning24
Arson/incendiarism12
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking5
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1

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
6 September 2013Other causesunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2008Debris and open burning7.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2019Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chester County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Fort Lawn: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Unidentified Clay MineClayPast ProducerMetamorphic

Every working 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
Fudges (historical)1.6 miles12
Lake View3.7 miles12
Bascomville4.3 miles12
Landsford5.2 miles12
Rowell6.5 miles12
Richburg6.7 miles12
Binghamtown (historical)6.7 miles12
Lewisville (historical)7.5 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 Fort LawnAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2197180The 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 1222502. 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.