Hurricane Tavern

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

“Hurricane Tavern, also known as Workman Farm, is a national historic district located near Woodruff, Spartanburg County, South Carolina. The district encompasses 30 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 1 contributing structure on a rural farmstead.”
Wikipedia article Hurricane Tavern, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 64 National Register listings published here for Spartanburg County · listed in 2001 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. 4101 SC 101, Woodruff, 29388
When was it listed? July 2001
Category. district
Census division. Woodruff
National Register reference number. 01000755 - 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

68 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Hurricane Tavern between 1992 and 2020, burning about 381 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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	29
Debris and open burning	22
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Smoking	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
4 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2007	Debris and open burning	5.6 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2002	Recreation and ceremony	28 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 1999	Smoking	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 July 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Spartanburg County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hurricane Tavern: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	418 Sand Pit	Sand	Unknown	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Spartanburg County

Storms near this property

31 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodruff, the town this property stands in, in 31 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 20 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 3 lightning, 1 heavy rain. 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
July 2008	Lightning	Woodruff	$75,000	Lightning ignited a fire on Breezy Hill Lane, causing extensive damage to the structure.
May 2009	Lightning	Woodruff	$50,000	Lightning ignited a fire at the Woodruff High School football stadium, destroying the press box.
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodruff	$20,000	Numerous trees and powerlines were blown down, some onto vehicles and homes.
August 2005	Heavy Rain	Woodruff	$10,000	Ankle-deep water entered a couple of businesses on Main St after a period of heavy rain. The business owners reported this has been a recurring event due to problems with drainage.
September 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodruff	$5,000	County comms reported multiple trees and a few power lines blown down east of Woodruff.
July 2005	Hail	Woodruff	$5,000	Large hail damaged a roof.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodruff	-	Emergency manager reported multiple trees and power lines blown down in the Woodruff and Enoree areas.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodruff	-	Ham radio operator and DOT reported multiple trees and some power lines blown down in the Woodruff area.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodruff	-	County comms reported trees blown down on Maryland Dr and on Parker Rd.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodruff	-	A tree was blown down on E Georgia St in Woodruff.
April 2012	Hail	Woodruff	-	Quarter size hail was reported about a mile southeast of Woodruff.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodruff	-	Numerous large trees were blown down around the Woodruff area.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodruff	-	A few trees were blown down on the east side of Woodruff, including on Cavins Rd and on Varner Rd. One tree fell on a house.
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodruff	-	Three trees were blown down in the Woodruff area.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodruff	-	Large tree limbs were blown down on Buncombe St, with power lines also downed about 2 miles south of Woodruff.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodruff	-	Numerous trees and power lines were blown down across Woodruff. One tree fell on and punctured the roof of a home on W Georgia St.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodruff	-	Several large tree limbs blown down around Woodruff, and power lines down on highway 221.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodruff	-	Trees down along Old Spartanburg Highway and highway 221 in Woodruff. Trees also down on Stillhouse Rd and highway 221.
June 2005	Hail	Woodruff	-	Small, 1.5 inch diameter, limbs blown down as well.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodruff	-	Some trees were blown down across Interstate 26 near the Highway 221 exit.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodruff	-	Numerous large trees were blown down across roads. County officials reported that Public Works crews were out all night cleaning up.
June 2007	Hail	Woodruff	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Woodruff	-	no account filed
July 1999	Hail	Woodruff	-	no account filed
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodruff	-	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodruff	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodruff	-	no account filed
July 1997	Lightning	Woodruff	-	no account filed
February 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodruff	-	no account filed
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodruff	-	no account filed
August 1994	Hail	Woodruff	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Spartanburg 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

5 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
Reidville Academy Faculty House	4.2 miles	1997
Nicholls-Crook House	5.8 miles	1973
First Presbyterian Church of Woodruff	6.3 miles	2005
Woodruff High School	6.5 miles	2006
James M. Davis House	7.2 miles	2010

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01000755 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Spartanburg County	All 64 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.