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Lesslie, South Carolina

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Rock Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29730. The Survey maps it on the Rock Hill East quadrangle. 3,068 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 701 feet above sea level.

Lesslie within York County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

135 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 135 fires within 5 miles of Lesslie between 1992 and 2020, burning about 477 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined53
Debris and open burning40
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Arson/incendiarism11
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking1
Natural1

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
28 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2010Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2002Natural2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in York County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Lesslie: 3 unknowns, 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Ashe MineClayUnknownSedimentary
Ashe MineClayPast Producer
Rock Hill QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknownIgneous
Rock Hill QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknownIgneous
York MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in York County

Storms near this place

10 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lesslie in 10 storm reports between 2006 and 2024: 7 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
April 2024HailLesslie-Ham radio operators reported quarter size hail from the Lesslie community through Catawba to the Lancaster County border.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindLesslie-Emergency manager reported trees blown down and a trampoline launched onto the roof of a residence on Peachtree Rd.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindLesslie-A tree was blown down on Hovis Rd, about 5 miles southeast of Rock Hill.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindLesslie-Large tree limbs were blown down.
July 2009HailLesslie-Hail was reported in the Lesslie area.
April 2010HailLesslie-no account filed
June 2008HailLesslie-no account filed
June 2007HailLesslie-no account filed
April 2006HailLesslie-no account filed
May 2006HailLesslie-no account filed

Every storm recorded in York 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
Leslie Woods1.2 miles15
Roddey1.7 miles12
Yorkdale1.8 miles15
Ravenwood1.8 miles15
Spring Valley2.0 miles15
Springdale Acres2.4 miles15
Sunrise Acres2.6 miles15
Springstein2.8 miles15

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 LesslieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2229034The 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 1223879. 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.