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Lena, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Estill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29918. It stands on Filly Branch. The Survey maps it on the Gifford quadrangle. It stands 108 feet above sea level.

Lena within Hampton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

337 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 337 fires within 5 miles of Lena between 1992 and 2020, burning about 937 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 64 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
Debris and open burning144
Missing data/not specified/undetermined89
Arson/incendiarism64
Equipment and vehicle use18
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Natural7
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

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
9 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2006Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2019Debris and open burning10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hampton County

Storms near this place

1 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lena in 1 storm report in 2004: 1 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 2004Thunderstorm WindLena-A trees and large limbs were knocked down on Highway 3.

Every storm recorded in Hampton 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
Estill1.4 miles16
Lawtonville Crossroads2.9 miles15
Nixville3.4 miles16
Steep Bottom (historical)4.0 miles16
Speaks Mill4.0 miles16
Luray4.4 miles16
Furman5.2 miles16
Scotia5.2 miles16

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 LenaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6522051The 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 1246334. 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.

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.