Little Mountain Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

“Little Mountain Historic District is a national historic district located at Little Mountain, Newberry County, South Carolina. The district encompasses 50 contributing buildings and 2 contributing structures in the railroad town of Little Mountain.”
Wikipedia article Little Mountain Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 37 National Register listings published here for Newberry County · listed in 2003 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Along portions of Pomaria, Church, Main and Mountain Sts., Little Mountain, 29075
When was it listed? April 2003
Category. district
Census division. Prosperity
National Register reference number. 03000275 - 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

156 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 156 fires within 5 miles of Little Mountain Historic District between 1992 and 2019, burning about 288 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 5 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	80
Debris and open burning	41
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Natural	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Other causes	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
8 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2016	Recreation and ceremony	1.2 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Newberry County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Little Mountain Historic District: 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Kyanite, Pyrophyllite, Kyanite. 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
	Little Mountain Kyn Occurrence	Pyrophyllite, Kyanite	Unknown	Pyrophyllite, Kyanite
	Little Mtn Deposit	Kyanite	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Newberry County

Storms near this property

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Little Mountain, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
January 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Mountain	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Newberry 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
Jacob Bedenbaugh House	3.9 miles	2011
Pomaria	4.2 miles	1979
St. John's Lutheran Church	4.5 miles	1978
Folk-Holloway House	4.9 miles	1992
Hatton House	5.0 miles	1990
Hope Rosenwald School	5.7 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03000275 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Newberry County	All 37 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.