Salley Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The Salley Historic District, located in Salley, South Carolina, consists of 99 contributing structures and 51 non-contributing resources, and provides a good example of a South Carolina rural community during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The town, located in Aiken County, South Carolina and incorporated in 1887, is named after D.”
Wikipedia article Salley Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Aiken County · listed in 2000 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Bounded by Pine, Ferguson, Poplar, and Aldrich Sts., Salley, 29137
When was it listed? October 2000
Category. district
Census division. Salley
National Register reference number. 00000554 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

187 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 187 fires within 5 miles of Salley Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,684 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 14 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/undetermined	71
Debris and open burning	56
Equipment and vehicle use	19
Arson/incendiarism	14
Misuse of fire by a minor	11
Natural	8
Smoking	4
Other causes	2
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
9 September 1997	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2019	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2006	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2003	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Aiken County

Storms near this property

20 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Salley, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 14 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Salley	$500,000	ASOS recorded a gust to 55 mph from a passing thunderstorm.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Salley	$14,000	Aiken Power COOP reported trees and powerlines down on Surrey Race Road with outages.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Salley	$4,000	DOT reported trees down between Windsor and Veterans roan on Hwy 4.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Salley	$3,000	Highway Patrol reported trees in the road on Bonnet road.
April 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Salley	$1,000	Highway Patrol reported a couple of trees down near Salley.
January 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Salley	-	EM reported a building collapse and power lines down on Depot Ave NE in Salley. Time estimated.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Salley	-	Aiken Co dispatch reported a tree down on Rocky Grove Rd near Rocky Grove Church near Salley. Time estimated.
February 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Salley	-	SCHP reported trees down on Jerusalem Branch Rd and Millers Pond Rd near Salley.
June 2015	Hail	Salley	-	Pbulic reported quarter size hail on Hwy 4 west of Springfield.
June 2015	Hail	Salley	-	Public reported quarter size hail on Hwy 4 west of Springfield.
September 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Salley	-	Trees down on Dean Swamp Church Road about 2 miles north of SC Hwy 4.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Salley	-	Augusta TV station received a report from one of their spotters that a mobile sustained wind damage on hwy 394 west of Salley.
June 2008	Hail	Salley	-	Sheriff reported nickel size hail at the intersection of highways 38 and 3.
October 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Salley	-	DOT reported a few trees down on SC 394 southwest of Salley.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Salley	-	Emergency Manager reported several trees down from Salley to Wagener.
May 2005	Hail	Salley	-	Post Office reported nickel size hail.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Salley	-	Spotter reported trees down, some on houses.
November 1995	Tornado (F0)	Salley	-	Two homes damaged by tornado. Trees were knocked down.
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Salley	-	no account filed
July 1996	Hail	Salley	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Aiken County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000554 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Aiken County	All 43 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
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.