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Photograph of Warrenville Elementary School
Photograph by Bill Fitzpatrick, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Warrenville Elementary School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“Warrenville Elementary School, originally known as Warrenville Graded School, was constructed in 1925 and used to educate mill village children located in and around the Warrenville, South Carolina, area. In 1954, two wings were added to the building.”

Wikipedia article Warrenville Elementary School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Aiken County · listed in 2002 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • Address. 115 Timmerman St., Warrenville, 29851
  • When was it listed? May 2002
  • Category. building
  • Census division. North Augusta
  • National Register reference number. 02000560 - 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

547 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 547 fires within 5 miles of Warrenville Elementary School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,367 acres in total. 15 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/undetermined155
Debris and open burning135
Arson/incendiarism97
Misuse of fire by a minor91
Equipment and vehicle use19
Natural15
Smoking10
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Other causes6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Recreation and ceremony4
Fireworks3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2008Natural2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2009Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2017Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2017Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Aiken County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 46 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 46 workings within 5 miles of Warrenville Elementary School: 24 past producers, 11 producers, 11 unknowns. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Kaolin, Stone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unidentified MineStone, DimensionPast ProducerIgneous Intrusive
Aiken Kaolin DistrictKaolinProducer1852
Barden MineKaolinUnknown
Graniteville MineKaolinProducer
Langley MineKaolinProducer
G.L.Williams PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gene Williams Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hillside Spring MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
McKie Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
McKie Sand Pit Number 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary

Every working recorded in Aiken County

Storms near this property

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Warrenville, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2015: 6 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 2010Thunderstorm WindWarrenville$500Highway Patrol reported a tree down on Hwy 421 near Warrenville.
June 2015HailWarrenville-Public reported nickel to quarter size hail on Hwy 104 southwest of Graniteville.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindWarrenville-Reported trees down on train tracks near Main Street and Highway 421 in Graniteville. Train stuck on tracks as a result.
May 2008HailWarrenville-Spotter reported quarter size hail at the Midland Valley Country Club.
May 2008HailWarrenville-Public reported nickel size hail.
July 2007HailWarrenville-Public reported nickel size hail and large limbs down.
May 2002HailWarrenville-Spotter reported quarter size hail.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindWarrenville-Newspaper reported trees and powerlines down.
April 1997HailWarrenville-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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Warren Mill0.3 miles2016
Hickman Mill Historic District1.2 miles2016
Graniteville Historic District1.5 miles1978
Pickens House2.9 miles1983
Chancellor James P. Carroll House3.1 miles1977
Aiken Winter Colony Historic District I3.8 miles1984

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 02000560 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Aiken CountyAll 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.
  • 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.