Lancaster, South Carolina

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 12 of 15 shown

• Lancaster County CourthouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1971
• Lancaster County JailNational Historic Landmark · listed 1971
• Robert Barnwell Allison Houselisted 1990
• Craig Houselisted 1990
• Thomas Walker Huey Houselisted 1990
• Lancaster Cotton Oil Companylisted 1990
• Lancaster Downtown Historic Districtlisted 1984
• Lancaster Presbyterian Churchlisted 1977
• Mount Carmel A.M.E. Zion Campgroundlisted 1979
• North Carolina-South Carolina Cornerstonelisted 1984
• Perry-McIlwain-McDow Houselisted 2011
• Leroy Springs Houselisted 1986

Every listing in Lancaster County

Surveyed buildings and structures 3 records

• Lancaster & Chester Railway Building, 512 South Main Street, Lancasterfederal building survey, 5 photographs
• Lancaster County Courthouse, 104 North Main Street at Dunlap Street, Lancasterfederal building survey, 13 photographs
• Lancaster County Jail, 208 West Gay Street, Lancasterfederal building survey, 13 photographs

Lancaster fell from 8,526 to 8,460 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.

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.

• 1941 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1960 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1963 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1969 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1986 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 240 fires within 5 miles of Lancaster between 1992 and 2020, burning about 617 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 15 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Gregwood
• Arrowood Estates
• Cedar Terrace
• Elgin
• Elgin Woods
• Fleming Crossroad

Every fire recorded in Lancaster County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lancaster in 106 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 56 thunderstorm wind, 33 hail, 11 flash flood, 4 lightning. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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.

Every storm recorded in Lancaster County

3 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 3,095 issues, 16,654 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

Front pages of the local paper, read from the Library of Congress scans: 13 issues spread across its run from 1852 to 1922, 17,963 words in total. Each is reproduced on its own page, exactly as the recogniser returned it.

These pages read less well than anything else here, and the number is worth stating: about three words in four come through cleanly, against nine in ten for the building records. An 1896 broadsheet sets eight-point type in seven columns on microfilm, which is the hardest thing in this archive to read by machine. We tested our own recognisers against the Library's and they were not better, so the Library's text is what appears, with the wholly unreadable columns removed. Read it as a guide to what the paper covered, and follow the link to the scan before quoting anything.

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1246285. 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.