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Lebanon, South Carolina

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Winnsboro North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29180. The Survey maps it on the Lebanon quadrangle.

Lebanon within Fairfield County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

107 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Lebanon between 1992 and 2019, burning about 310 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined43
Debris and open burning27
Equipment and vehicle use13
Natural10
Arson/incendiarism6
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
5 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2002Smokingunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2001Naturalunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2000Naturalunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fairfield County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Lebanon: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Dimension, Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite, Stone, Dimension. 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
Anderson QuarryGranite, Stone, DimensionPast Producer1898
Unnamed Dimension Stone QuarryStone, Dimension, Granite, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerIgneous Intrusion

Every working recorded in Fairfield County

Storms near this place

7 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lebanon in 7 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
May 2009Tornado (EF0)Lebanon$4,000NWS storm survey and Fairfield Electric COOP found trees and some powerlines down from a small tornado. It was associated with the supercell that originated in Laurens county that went across Newberry and into Fairifield county.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindLebanon-Fairfield County Emergency Management reports numerous trees down across much of the county.
June 2022HailLebanon-Video provided by Fairfield County EM shows quarter sized Hail at a residence near the intersection of Hwy 34 and Old Douglass Road (State Rd. S-20-22).
June 2022HailLebanon-Public report of dime sized Hail near the intersection of Hwy 34 and Cammack Rd (State Rd. S-20-53). Time estimated.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindLebanon-Severe thunderstorm downburst winds produced a swath of damage which included numerous trees down in several locations, generally stretching from near Lebanon south to areas SW of Winnsboro, generally along and just east of Jackson Creek Rd. Trees were downed on Armstrong Rd, Old Airport Rd and Jackson Creek Rd, Hwy 213 at Jackson Creek Rd, Corona Dr, Reservoir Rd and New Hope Rd, and at Chapell Town Rd at Reservoir Rd (SC S-20-70) where over a dozen trees were downed. Times estimated.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindLebanon-Trees down on Clarks Bridge Rd, and power lines down on SC 34 nearby.
May 2016HailLebanon-Public reported quarter size hail at the Lebanon Mart along Highway 34.

Every storm recorded in Fairfield 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
Douglass4.0 miles14
Adger4.5 miles14
Salem Crossroads5.0 miles14
Old Buckhead5.7 miles14
White Oak6.4 miles15
Monticello6.4 miles15
Winnsboro6.6 miles15
Winnsboro Mills7.2 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1223857. 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.