Beaufort, South Carolina

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• Beaufort County

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 12 of 15 shown

• 1313 Congress St, Beaufort Historic DistrictNational Historic Landmark · listed 1969
• MarshlandsNational Historic Landmark · listed 1973
• Robert Smalls HouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1974
• Anchorage, Thelisted 1971
• William Barnwell Houselisted 1971
• Barnwell-Gough Houselisted 1972
• Beaufort National Cemeterylisted 1997
• John A. Cuthbert Houselisted 1972
• Hunting Island State Park Lighthouselisted 1970
• Seacoast Packing Companylisted 2008
• Tabby Manselisted 1971
• John Mark Verdier Houselisted 1971

Every listing in Beaufort County

Surveyed buildings and structures 12 of 50 shown

• Beaufort Baptist Church, 600 Charles Street, Beaufortfederal building survey, 17 photographs
• Beaufort National Cemetery, 1601 Boundary Street, Beaufortfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Beaufort National Cemetery, Lodge, 1601 Boundary Street, Beaufortfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Beaufort National Cemetery, Wall, 1601 Boundary Street, Beaufortfederal building survey, 16 photographs
• Beaufort Volunteer Artillery, 713 Craven Street, Beaufortfederal building survey, 5 photographs
• Berners Barnwell Sams House, 201 Laurens Street, Beaufortfederal building survey, 21 photographs
• Berners Barnwell Sams House, Dependencies, 201 Laurens Street, Beaufortfederal building survey, 5 photographs
• Cassena (House), 315 Federal Street, Beaufortfederal building survey, 11 photographs
• Colonel Edward Means House, 604 Pinckney Street, Beaufortfederal building survey, 23 photographs
• Dr. Joseph Johnson House, 411 Craven Street, Beaufortfederal building survey, 17 photographs
• Elizabeth Barnwell Gough House, 705 Washington Street, Beaufortfederal building survey, 22 photographs
• Elliot House, 1103 Bay Street, Beaufortfederal building survey, 3 photographs

Every surveyed structure in Beaufort County

Beaufort grew from 12,361 to 13,607 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.

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.

• 1944 USGS Fort Fremont quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1958 USGS Beaufort quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1959 USGS Fort Fremont quadrangle1:62500
• 1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1978 USGS Beaufort quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1998 USGS Beaufort quadrangle1:24000

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.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Beaufort between 1992 and 2019, burning about 376 acres in total. None started naturally. 23 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Battery Marina Village
• Bon Aire
• Dowlingwood
• Green Pond
• Magnolia Bluff
• Mariners Watch

Every fire recorded in Beaufort County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beaufort in 110 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 74 thunderstorm wind, 19 hail, 8 lightning, 6 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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.

Every storm recorded in Beaufort County

7 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 399 issues, 1,593 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

Front pages of the local paper, read from the Library of Congress scans: 28 issues spread across its run from 1863 to 1879, 58,204 words in total. Each is reproduced on its own page, exactly as the recogniser returned it.

These pages read less well than anything else here, and the number is worth stating: about three words in four come through cleanly, against nine in ten for the building records. An 1896 broadsheet sets eight-point type in seven columns on microfilm, which is the hardest thing in this archive to read by machine. We tested our own recognisers against the Library's and they were not better, so the Library's text is what appears, with the wholly unreadable columns removed. Read it as a guide to what the paper covered, and follow the link to the scan before quoting anything.

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1245003. 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.