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Pleasant Lane, South Carolina

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Pleasant Lane census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29824. It stands on Little Stevens Creek. The Survey maps it on the Owdoms quadrangle.

Pleasant Lane within Edgefield County

On record in Pleasant Lane

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Edgefield County Bridge No. 3, Road S-63 spanning Log Creek, Pleasant Lane, Edgefield County, SC
Edgefield County Bridge No. 3, Road S-63 spanning Log Creek, Pleasant Lane, Edgefield County, SC
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

80 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Lane between 1992 and 2017, burning about 327 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined29
Debris and open burning24
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural7
Arson/incendiarism5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1
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
9 September 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minor5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsPITTSBURGH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Edgefield County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Pleasant Lane: 5 past producers, 2 producers, 2 unknowns, 2 occurrences. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Clay, Corundum, Pyrophyllite, Kyanite, Aluminum, Kyanite. 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
Boles Mtn Andalusite DepositKyaniteOccurrence
Boles OccurrenceCorundum, Pyrophyllite, Kyanite, AluminumUnknownDiaspore, Pyrophyllite, Corundum, Kyanite, Andalusite
Crystal Blue Quarry No. 2GranitePast Producer
Faulkner Mountain Pyrophillite ProspectPyrophyllite, AndalusiteUnknownMetamorphic
Edgefield Shale PitClayProducerMetamorphic
Turkey CreekClayProducer
Faulkner Mountain ProspectGoldOccurrence
Landrum MineGoldPast Producer
Landrum and Quattlebaum Mine Southern MineGoldPast ProducerVein
Long Cane Road ProspectGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Edgefield County

Storms near this place

17 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pleasant Lane in 17 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 13 thunderstorm wind, 4 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
February 2011Thunderstorm WindPleasant Lane$8,000Sheriff and Utility Company reported trees and powerlines down across northern Edgefield into Johnston.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindPleasant Lane$3,000Sheriff reported several trees down northwest of Edgefield on Hwy 25.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindPleasant Lane$3,000Sheriff reported several trees down northwest of Edgefield on Hwy 25.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindPleasant Lane$1,000DOT reported a couple of powerlines and traffic signal light down east northeast of Edgefield on Hwy 378.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindPleasant Lane-Edgefield County dispatch reports trees down along Hwy 378 in Edgefield County. Time estimated by radar.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindPleasant Lane-Public report and photo, submitted via social media, of large tree branches down on the road on Meeting Street Rd, north of Edgefield. Exact location and time estimated.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindPleasant Lane-SCHP reported tree down in roadway at US Hwy 25 and US Hwy 378. Time estimated.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindPleasant Lane-County highway dept reported several trees down.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindPleasant Lane-SC DOT office in Edgefield reported two trees down in the vicinity of N Martintown Rd and US Hwy 378. Time estimated.
May 2017HailPleasant Lane-Edgefield Co EM reported baseball size hail at Hwy 25 and Hwy 378.
May 2017HailPleasant Lane-Edgefield County EM reported hail ranging in size from pea size to a little larger than golf ball size. There were several reports of damaged vehicles. The main impact area was Long Cane Rd and Hwy 378 west to the McCormick Co line.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindPleasant Lane-Edgefield Co dispatch reported trees down along US Hwy 378.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindPleasant Lane-Edgefield County Sheriffs Office reported trees and power lines down on Hwy 25.
May 2014HailPleasant Lane-Spotter reported quarter size hail.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindPleasant Lane-Trees down on N. Martintown Rd. near US Hwy 378.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindPleasant Lane-Public reported 2 large trees down across Adams Rd. near Ouzts Rd. They also reported hail but the size was unknown.
April 2009HailPleasant Lane-Public reported nickel size hail along hwy 25 NNW of Edgefield.

Every storm recorded in Edgefield 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
Limestone2.5 miles15
Lime Stone (historical)3.0 miles15
Tompkins Cross Roads3.1 miles11
Meeting Street3.7 miles11
Cleora6.0 miles16
Sullivan Crossroads6.6 miles15
Mathais Crossroads6.6 miles11
Brunson Crossroads6.7 miles16

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.

Wikidata item Q122553728The 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 1250183. 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.