Lydia, South Carolina
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Hartsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29079. The Survey maps it on the Hartsville South quadrangle. 572 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 213 feet above sea level.
On record in Lydia
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Lydia Plantationlisted 2010
Population over time
2 figuresLydia fell from 642 to 572 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 642 | |
| 2020 | 572 | -70 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1941 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Spartanburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Hartsville South quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Camden quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Camden South quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
296 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 296 fires within 5 miles of Lydia between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,403 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 53 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 burning | 115 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 91 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 53 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 13 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 12 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2019 | Natural | 3.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 September 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 September 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lydia in 11 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lydia | $1,000 | Multiple trees down at Hwy 15 and Tomahawk Road. |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lydia | $1,000 | A tree was reported down on W Lydia Hwy near the Lydia Fire Department. The time was estimated based on radar data. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lydia | $1,000 | A tree was reported down near the railroad tracks on Wesley Chapel Rd. The time was estimated based on radar data. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lydia | $1,000 | A tree was reported down on U.S. 15. The time was estimated based on radar data. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lydia | $1,000 | A tree was reported down near the intersection of W Lydia Hwy. and Wesley Chapel Rd. The time was estimated based on radar data. |
| April 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lydia | $1,000 | A large tree was reported down across High Point Road near the Lee County line. |
| January 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lydia | - | Wind gust of 65 mph estimated in the town of Lydia. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lydia | - | Large tree down at corner of Galloway Town Road and Indian Branch Road causing two traffic accidents with no injuries reported. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Lydia | - | Darlington County Agricultural Extension Services reported a corn field was damaged by quarter sized hail near the intersection of Highway 15 and Indian Branch Road. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lydia | - | Tree down in the vicinity of the intersection of Indian Branch Road and Wesley Chapel Road. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lydia | - | An antenna, sixty feet high, was blown down. There was substantial damage to several large oak trees, and one tree was toppled. The trees were estimated to be one hundred years old. Darlington County Emergency Management surveyed the damage and determined that it was the result of straight-line winds. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lees Crossroads | 1.6 miles | 14 | |
| Una | 1.8 miles | 14 | |
| Register Crossroads | 1.9 miles | 14 | |
| Meadow Oaks | 3.1 miles | 14 | |
| Oats | 3.1 miles | 14 | |
| Lakefield Circle | 3.5 miles | 14 | |
| Kingsville Heights | 4.0 miles | 14 | |
| Bladen | 4.1 miles | 14 |
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 Lydia | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q13634083 | The 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 1224234. 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.







