Oconee State Park Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Oconee County · listed in 2004 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. 624 State Park Rd., Mountain Rest, 29664
When was it listed? June 2004
Category. district
Also known as. South Carolina State Parks MPS
Census division. Mountain Rest
National Register reference number. 04000618 - 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

98 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Oconee State Park Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 302 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 13 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	26
Debris and open burning	25
Arson/incendiarism	13
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Natural	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	8
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
7 September 2002	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1998	Natural	5.0 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	DODGE MOUNTAIN
21 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	DOUBLE SPRINGS
19 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2007	Natural	8.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	TUNNEL
31 August 1999	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	WHITE HOUSE

Every fire recorded in Oconee County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Oconee State Park Historic District: 1 unknown, 1 past producer, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
(Facility) Unnamed Silver Smelter Site	Silver	Plant
Jesse Lay Mine	Gold	Unknown	Vein
Jesse Lay Mine	Gold	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Oconee 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
Oconee Station and Richards House	2.3 miles	1971
Stumphouse Tunnel Complex	3.9 miles	1971
Tamassee DAR School	4.9 miles	2012
Russell House	5.0 miles	1988
Walhalla High School	7.1 miles	2023
Walhalla Graded School	7.1 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04000618 in Record Group 79.
Oconee County	All 24 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.