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Lando, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Richburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29724. It stands on Hicklin Branch. The Survey maps it on the Edgemoor quadrangle. It stands 509 feet above sea level.

Lando within Chester County

On record in Lando

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

149 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 149 fires within 5 miles of Lando between 1992 and 2019, burning about 434 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined54
Debris and open burning35
Railroad operations and maintenance28
Equipment and vehicle use9
Arson/incendiarism9
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural3
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes2

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
4 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2015Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2015Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1998Natural1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2005Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chester County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Lando: 4 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, 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
Decker-Holway Steel--Richburg, ScIronUnknown
Unnamed Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknownIgneous
Dickerson Pit EastSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
Dickerson Pit EastSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Fishing Creek MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary

Every working recorded in Chester County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lando in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2024Thunderstorm WindLando$25,000A storm survey performed by NWS Columbia found straight line wind damage across eastern Chester County from Richburg and Fort Lawn to Great Falls. Other than numerous trees blown down (including trees that blocked I-77), a couple of gas station awnings were flipped in Fort Lawn and in Great Falls. The awning in Fort Lawn landed on a vehicle.
September 2017Thunderstorm WindLando-County comms reported a few trees blown down with one falling on a power line in the Lando area.
June 2010HailLando-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chester 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
Edgemoor2.0 miles15
Hicklin Crossing2.3 miles15
Lewisville (historical)2.5 miles12
Rodman4.2 miles15
Richburg4.2 miles12
Landsford4.7 miles12
Rowell4.9 miles12
Knox5.3 miles12

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 LandoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6484846The 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 1246287. 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.

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.