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.
Population over time
2 figuresKline 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 197 | |
| 2020 | 148 | -49 (-25%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1919 USGS Allendale quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1943 USGS Allendale quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Barnwell quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Barnwell quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
122 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 47 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 28 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 8 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 September 1999 | Natural | 15 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 2018 | Natural | 10 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 1 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 August 2014 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
16 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kline | $3,000 | The County Dispatch reported trees down along Poplar Road near Hwy 278. |
| July 2013 | Flash Flood | Kline | $3,000 | County 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 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kline | $2,000 | Sheriff reported trees down near Boiling Springs road and Hwy 3. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kline | - | Barnwell Co Dispatch reported trees down on SC Hwy 300 near the Allendale Co line. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kline | - | The County Dispatch reported trees down along Poplar Road near Hwy 278. |
| September 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kline | - | Trees down on Highway 278 just outside of the Town of Kline. |
| September 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kline | - | Highway Patrol reported powerlines in roadway on Hwy 278 in Kline. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Kline | - | Public reported hail up to quarter size that nearly covered the ground. |
| February 2009 | Hail | Kline | - | Sheriff reported penny size hail in the Kline and Olar areas. |
| April 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kline | - | Highway dept. reported trees down on hwy 278. Other trees were down between Williston and Blackville on hwy 78. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kline | - | Highway Dept. reported a couple of trees down in the Kline area on hwy 278. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kline | - | Highway dept. reported some trees down on hwy 609. |
| June 2002 | Hail | Kline | - | Emergency manager reported nickel size hail in Kline. Some street flooding as well. |
| September 2000 | Tornado (F0) | Kline | - | Damage survey found F0 tornado path along Lyndhurst Road taking down only trees. |
| May 1993 | Hail | Kline | - | Trees down in southern part of Barnwell County |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kline | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Owens Crossroad | 3.8 miles | 16 | |
| Yenome | 4.0 miles | 16 | |
| Boiling Springs | 4.7 miles | 16 | |
| Hagoods Mill | 6.2 miles | 16 | |
| Hells Half Acre | 8.0 miles | 16 | |
| Patterson Mill | 8.1 miles | 16 | |
| Barnwell | 8.2 miles | 16 | |
| Happy Bottom | 8.4 miles | 16 |
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 Kline | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2877463 | The 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.








