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Landsford, South Carolina

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Fort Lawn census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29704. The Survey maps it on the Catawba quadrangle.

Landsford within Chester County

On record in Landsford

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

128 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Landsford between 1992 and 2018, burning about 343 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined65
Debris and open burning31
Equipment and vehicle use11
Arson/incendiarism8
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Other causes3
Smoking2
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
26 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth 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
12 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 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

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Landsford: 3 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
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 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Landsford in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2019: 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
July 2019Thunderstorm WindLandsford-County comms reported a few trees blown down in the Fort Lawn area.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindLandsford-A few trees were blown down.
June 2009HailLandsford-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
Rowell1.3 miles12
Fudges (historical)3.6 miles12
Lando4.7 miles15
Fort Lawn5.2 miles12
Edgemoor5.2 miles15
Bascomville6.0 miles12
Lewisville (historical)6.0 miles12
Richburg6.6 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.

Wikidata item Q122550515The 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 1227932. 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.