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Land of the Lakes, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Lexington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29073. The Survey maps it on the Lexington quadrangle.

Land of the Lakes within Lexington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

723 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 723 fires within 5 miles of Land of the Lakes between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,014 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 27 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/undetermined373
Debris and open burning143
Misuse of fire by a minor115
Equipment and vehicle use28
Arson/incendiarism27
Natural11
Smoking11
Recreation and ceremony6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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
8 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lexington County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Land of the Lakes: 6 unknowns, 4 producers, 4 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zirconium, Titanium, Iron, Thorium, Clay, Silica. 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
BledsoeSandUnknownSedimentary
Casparis Stone QuarryGranite, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer1902
Columbia WorksSilicaProducer
Lexington MineFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Sox MineClayProducerSedimentary
Red Bank CreekZirconium, Titanium, Iron, ThoriumUnknownPlacer , Modern , Fluvial
Twelve Mile CreekZirconium, Titanium, Iron, ThoriumUnknownPlacer , Modern , Fluvial
Columbia Pit WestSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
Davis Bros.Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Edmund MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary

Every working recorded in Lexington 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
Southgate0.4 miles13
Harrisburg0.9 miles13
Wrenwood0.9 miles13
Walnut Creek1.0 miles13
Red Bank1.2 miles13
Honeywood1.4 miles13
Oakridge1.8 miles13
Hamlet West2.0 miles13

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.

Wikidata item Q122550058The 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 1244233. 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.