Morgan House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

“Morgan House is a historic home located Central, Pickens County, South Carolina. It was built in 1893 in the Queen Anne, and modified about 1917 with Classical Revival style changes.”
Wikipedia article Morgan House (Central, South Carolina), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Pickens County · listed in 2001 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 416 Church St., Central, 29630
When was it listed? March 2001
Category. building
Census division. Central
National Register reference number. 01000312 - 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

106 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Morgan House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 618 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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	46
Debris and open burning	28
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Arson/incendiarism	8
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Other causes	1
Natural	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
30 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	30 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2008	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
31 July 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Pickens County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Morgan House: 5 prospects, 2 occurrences, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Calhoun Placer	Gold	Past Producer
Calhoun Placer	Gold	Unknown	Placer
Amos L Honeycutt Deposit	Mica	Occurrence
Head Prospect	Mica	Prospect
Mattie Falls Deposit	Mica	Occurrence
Morgan Prospect	Mica	Prospect
Murphrie Deposit	Mica	Prospect
Robinson Prospects	Mica	Prospect
Ross Morgan Prospect	Mica	Prospect

Every working recorded in Pickens County

Storms near this property

25 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Central, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 12 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Central	$100,000	NWS storm survey and em reported numerous trees blown down due to downburst winds, with one tree on a house and multiple other homes receiving mostly minor damage due to falling limbs. The damage was mainly from Wood St, across Meredith St, to Fernway Dr.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Central	$50,000	no account filed
January 1999	Lightning	Central	$30,000	no account filed
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Central	$10,000	Numerous trees were blown down. At least one tree fell on a house.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Central	$5,000	A localized thunderstorm ripped through Central wrecking part of a recreation department's facilities, smashed two cars and damaged roof to a home.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Central	$2,000	Fire dept reported multiple trees and power lines down from Maw Bridge Rd and Blue Jay Rd across Pin Du Lac Dr to Madden Bridge Rd. A few outbuildings were damaged as well.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Central	-	Dept of Highways reported a couple of trees blown down in the Central area.
April 2017	Tornado (EF0)	Central	-	NWS Storm survey found a short tornado path within large area of downburst damage in central. The tornado very briefly touched down near the intersection of Joseph St and Wood St, bringing down dozens of trees in a wooded area behind residences.
August 2014	Hail	Central	-	Public reported quarter size hail.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Central	-	County comms reported multiple trees blown down near Robinson Bridge Rd and Pea ridge Rd.
June 2014	Hail	Central	-	Spotter reported 3/4 inch hail near Six Mile.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Central	-	Multiple trees were blown down along highway 123 near Central.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Central	-	Some trees were blown down.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Central	-	Several trees were blown down.
May 2012	Hail	Central	-	no account filed
August 2011	Hail	Central	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Central	-	no account filed
August 2009	Hail	Central	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Central	-	no account filed
April 2005	Heavy Rain	Central	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Central	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Central	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Central	-	no account filed
October 1997	Flash Flood	Central	-	no account filed
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Central	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pickens 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.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Central High School	under 500 feet	1994
Central Roller Mills	0.4 miles	2013
J.C. Stribling Barn	3.8 miles	2001
Clemson University Historic District I	4.2 miles	1990
Clemson College Sheep Barn	4.2 miles	1990
Hanover House	4.3 miles	1970

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01000312 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pickens County	All 29 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.
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.