Stoney Creek Independent Presbyterian Chapel of Prince William Parish

Built in 1833 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“Stoney Creek Independent Presbyterian Chapel of Prince William Parish or Stoney Creek Presbyterian Chapel is a chapel in southeastern Hampton County, South Carolina, United States in the unincorporated community of McPhersonville, South Carolina about 4 mi (6 km) west of Yemassee. In the USGS Geographic Names Information System, it is called McPhersonville Church.”
Wikipedia article Stoney Creek Independent Presbyterian Chapel of Prince William Parish, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Hampton County · listed in 2002 · category: Building · built in 1833, Greek Revival architecture.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. McPhersonville, McPhersonville, 29945
When was it listed? May 2002
Category. building
Census division. Yemassee
When was it built? 1833
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 02000559 - 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

332 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 332 fires within 5 miles of Stoney Creek Independent Presbyterian Chapel of Prince William Parish between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,457 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 97 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	102
Arson/incendiarism	97
Debris and open burning	96
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Natural	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Smoking	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
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
29 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 August 2007	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Hampton 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 02000559 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hampton County	All 16 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.