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Leo, South Carolina

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Lake City-Scranton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29560. It stands on Gum Branch. The Survey maps it on the Prospect Crossroads quadrangle.

Leo within Florence County

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

352 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 352 fires within 5 miles of Leo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,394 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 114 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 burning116
Arson/incendiarism114
Missing data/not specified/undetermined89
Equipment and vehicle use16
Natural6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony3
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
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Arson/incendiarism10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2009Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Florence County

Storms near this place

5 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leo in 5 storm reports between 2011 and 2015: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 2011Thunderstorm WindLeo$4,000Several trees were reported down on Johnsonville Highway, near the intersection with old Georgetown Road.
October 2015Flash FloodLeo$2,000Portions of Old Georgetown Road were reported flooded.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindLeo$1,000A tree was reported in the roadway along Huggins Road. The time was estimated based on radar data.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindLeo$1,000A tree was reported down in the 100 block of N Old Georgetown Road. The time was estimated based on radar data.
July 2011HailLeo-Hail to the size of nickels was reported.

Every storm recorded in Florence 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
Prospect Crossroads3.2 miles8
Lee Crossroads3.8 miles8
Half Moon (historical)3.9 miles8
Hannah3.9 miles8
Burkett Landing5.3 miles8
Poston Crossroads6.1 miles8
Martha Law Estates6.3 miles8
Bass Crossroads6.7 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1227935. 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.