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Kline, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Kline-Snelling census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29812. The Survey maps it on the Barnwell quadrangle. 148 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 243 feet above sea level.

Kline within Barnwell County

Population over time

2 figures

Kline fell from 197 to 148 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
2010197
2020148-49 (-25%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

122 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Kline between 1992 and 2020, burning about 739 acres in total. 9 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
Debris and open burning47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Arson/incendiarism12
Equipment and vehicle use11
Natural9
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Smoking5
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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 2010Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1999Natural15 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2005Debris and open burning15 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2018Natural10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barnwell County

Storms near this place

16 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kline in 16 storm reports between 1993 and 2016: 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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 2013Thunderstorm WindKline$3,000The County Dispatch reported trees down along Poplar Road near Hwy 278.
July 2013Flash FloodKline$3,000County Dispatch reported flooding at the intersection of Equire Road and Big Fork Road and also on Hwy 278 flooded near the Allendale County line just south of Kline.
January 2010Thunderstorm WindKline$2,000Sheriff reported trees down near Boiling Springs road and Hwy 3.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindKline-Barnwell Co Dispatch reported trees down on SC Hwy 300 near the Allendale Co line.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindKline-The County Dispatch reported trees down along Poplar Road near Hwy 278.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindKline-Trees down on Highway 278 just outside of the Town of Kline.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindKline-Highway Patrol reported powerlines in roadway on Hwy 278 in Kline.
April 2011HailKline-Public reported hail up to quarter size that nearly covered the ground.
February 2009HailKline-Sheriff reported penny size hail in the Kline and Olar areas.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindKline-Highway dept. reported trees down on hwy 278. Other trees were down between Williston and Blackville on hwy 78.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindKline-Highway Dept. reported a couple of trees down in the Kline area on hwy 278.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindKline-Highway dept. reported some trees down on hwy 609.
June 2002HailKline-Emergency manager reported nickel size hail in Kline. Some street flooding as well.
September 2000Tornado (F0)Kline-Damage survey found F0 tornado path along Lyndhurst Road taking down only trees.
May 1993HailKline-Trees down in southern part of Barnwell County
May 1997Thunderstorm WindKline-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Barnwell 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
Owens Crossroad3.8 miles16
Yenome4.0 miles16
Boiling Springs4.7 miles16
Hagoods Mill6.2 miles16
Hells Half Acre8.0 miles16
Patterson Mill8.1 miles16
Barnwell8.2 miles16
Happy Bottom8.4 miles16

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 KlineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2877463The 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 1246263. 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.