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Lake Secession, South Carolina

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Antreville-Lowndesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29655. The Survey maps it on the Antreville quadrangle. 1,058 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 551 feet above sea level.

Lake Secession within Abbeville County

Population over time

2 figures

Lake Secession fell from 1,083 to 1,058 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
20101,083
20201,058-25 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

269 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 269 fires within 5 miles of Lake Secession between 1992 and 2020, burning about 609 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 65 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/undetermined68
Debris and open burning68
Arson/incendiarism65
Equipment and vehicle use23
Smoking12
Natural10
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Recreation and ceremony7
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Fireworks1
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
9 September 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2006Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2007Debris and open burning1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2012Misuse of fire by a minor1.1 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Abbeville County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Lake Secession: 4 prospects, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Feldspar, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Scott QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Brown ProspectsMica, FeldsparProspect
Todd ProspectFeldspar, MicaProspect
Vandiver & Cooke Scott ProspectsMica, FeldsparProspect
Albert Brown ProspectMicaProspect
Clenkscales ProspectMicaUnknownPegmatite
Rocky River MineMicaUnknown1921, 1923

Every working recorded in Abbeville 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
Antreville3.1 miles12
Brownlee Crossroads4.5 miles12
Lowndesville5.8 miles14
Dover (historical)6.9 miles15
Level Land7.0 miles13
Duke (historical)7.6 miles14
Diamond Hill Spring (historical)8.1 miles14
Rocky River (historical)8.1 miles14

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 Lake SecessionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2287563The 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 1852677. 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.