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Level Land, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Due West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29655. It stands on Blacks Creek. The Survey maps it on the Due West quadrangle.

Level Land within Abbeville County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

274 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 274 fires within 5 miles of Level Land between 1992 and 2020, burning about 968 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 96 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
Arson/incendiarism96
Missing data/not specified/undetermined64
Debris and open burning59
Equipment and vehicle use27
Smoking11
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1

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 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use21 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2007Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2010Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Abbeville County

Storms near this place

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Level Land in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2010: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
June 2010Thunderstorm WindLevel Land-Several trees were blown down along Pearman Rd.
March 2010HailLevel Land-Some vehicles were damaged by large hail in this area.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindLevel Land-no account filed
July 1999HailLevel Land-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Abbeville 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
West View3.1 miles13
The Hook (historical)3.7 miles13
Antreville3.9 miles12
Fairs Crossroads4.0 miles13
Due West4.7 miles13
Keowee4.9 miles13
Iris5.4 miles13
Winona5.6 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231476. 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.