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Lane, South Carolina

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Lane census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29564. The Survey maps it on the Greeleyville quadrangle. 472 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 69 feet above sea level.

Lane within Williamsburg County

Population over time

3 figures

Lane fell from 585 to 472 between 2000 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
2000585
2010508-77 (-13%)
2020472-36 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

774 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 774 fires within 5 miles of Lane between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,517 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 234 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/undetermined310
Arson/incendiarism234
Debris and open burning186
Smoking13
Equipment and vehicle use12
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
25 September 1998Smoking6.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2011Smokingunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2018Railroad operations and maintenance50 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 1999Debris and open burning45 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2008Natural25 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 1999Arson/incendiarism9.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamsburg County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lane: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Gourdin Fullers Earth PitClayUnknownSedimentary

Every working recorded in Williamsburg County

Storms near this place

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lane in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2019: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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 2016Thunderstorm WindLane$1,000A tree was reportedly down on Broomstraw Road. The time was estimated based on radar data.
June 2019HailLane-Quarter size hail was reported east of Lane, SC.
March 2008Thunderstorm WindLane-A National Weather Service Storm Survey obsevered sporadic areas of straight-line wind damage. Numerous trees were snapped or uprooted from near Lane to near Trio.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindLane-Trees down on Hwy 377.
May 2005HailLane-Golfball size hail was reported.
August 2002HailLane-Spotter reported dime size hail.

Every storm recorded in Williamsburg 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
Carris2.7 miles8
Gourdin2.8 miles9
Heineman3.6 miles8
Edwards5.0 miles8
Bryans Crossroads5.1 miles8
Taft5.3 miles8
Salters Depot5.3 miles8
Salters5.5 miles8

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 LaneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2141424The 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 1246290. 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.