Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.
From the record
“Lake City Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Lake City, Florence County, South Carolina. The district encompasses 44 contributing buildings in the central business district of Lake City.”
Wikipedia article Lake City Downtown Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 29 National Register listings published here for Florence County · listed in 2003 · category: District.
National Register reference number.01001551- 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
570 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 570 fires within 5 miles of Lake City Downtown Historic District
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,127 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 182 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
Debris and open burning
188
Arson/incendiarism
182
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
138
Equipment and vehicle use
34
Misuse of fire by a minor
17
Smoking
3
Natural
3
Recreation and ceremony
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
Other causes
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Lake City, the town this property stands in, in 43 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 20 thunderstorm wind, 16 hail, 4 tornado, 2 flash flood.
The reports record 11 injuries. 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.
A tornado, described as a big white twisting cloud, picked up two mobile homes, twisted them in the air and tore them apart; six other mobile homes were damaged. Three girls who saw the approaching tornado vacated one of the mobile homes before it was picked up and destroyed; a woman was thrown out of another mobile home and seriously injured. Three homes, six cars, and two businesses were damaged, also power lines and trees were downed, and eleven people (eight treated at local hospital and released) received minor injuries. The roof was blown off a lumber company's Show Room.
Heavy rains from the remnants of Tropical Storm Gaston totaled around 6 inches in a few hours, causing flooding...especially in the Lake City and city of Darlington areas.
A roof was blown off a store. A large billboard was torn apart. Wooden bleachers were destroyed, with trees down of various sizes. Both a Hardees and a Dominos sign were blown apart. Damage occurred along US Hwy 378.
Several roads have been barricaded in downtown Lake City, including Williamsburg Avenue, Charles Street at Blanding Street, Wilson Street, Winkys Drive at Liberty Drive, Singletary Avenue at East Main Street, and Wilbur Street.
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
4 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.
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.
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