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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.

Lydia within Darlington County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Lydia 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.

YearPeople Change
2010642
2020572-70 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

296 since 1992

Regional 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 burning115
Missing data/not specified/undetermined91
Arson/incendiarism53
Equipment and vehicle use13
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Smoking6
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
29 September 2019Natural3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2009Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Darlington County

Storms near this place

11 since 2008

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2019Thunderstorm WindLydia$1,000Multiple trees down at Hwy 15 and Tomahawk Road.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindLydia$1,000A tree was reported down on W Lydia Hwy near the Lydia Fire Department. The time was estimated based on radar data.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindLydia$1,000A tree was reported down near the railroad tracks on Wesley Chapel Rd. The time was estimated based on radar data.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindLydia$1,000A tree was reported down on U.S. 15. The time was estimated based on radar data.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindLydia$1,000A tree was reported down near the intersection of W Lydia Hwy. and Wesley Chapel Rd. The time was estimated based on radar data.
April 2013Thunderstorm WindLydia$1,000A large tree was reported down across High Point Road near the Lee County line.
January 2024Thunderstorm WindLydia-Wind gust of 65 mph estimated in the town of Lydia.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindLydia-Large tree down at corner of Galloway Town Road and Indian Branch Road causing two traffic accidents with no injuries reported.
May 2024HailLydia-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 2022Thunderstorm WindLydia-Tree down in the vicinity of the intersection of Indian Branch Road and Wesley Chapel Road.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindLydia-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.

Every storm recorded in Darlington 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
Lees Crossroads1.6 miles14
Una1.8 miles14
Register Crossroads1.9 miles14
Meadow Oaks3.1 miles14
Oats3.1 miles14
Lakefield Circle3.5 miles14
Kingsville Heights4.0 miles14
Bladen4.1 miles14

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 LydiaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q13634083The 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.