Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church located at 369 Drayton Street in McClellanville, South Carolina. It was built around 1872, and is a one-story, rectangular frame vernacular Gothic Revival church.”
Wikipedia article Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church (McClellanville, South Carolina), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 227 National Register listings published here for Charleston County · listed in 2004 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. 369 Drayton St., McClellanville, 29458
When was it listed? June 2004
Category. building
Census division. McClellanville
National Register reference number. 04000651 - 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

243 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 243 fires within 5 miles of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church between 1992 and 2018, burning about 3,507 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 84 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
Arson/incendiarism	84
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	73
Debris and open burning	58
Natural	9
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Smoking	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
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
17 September 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	SKIDDER
4 August 2006	Natural	21 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 2002	Natural	18 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 2007	Natural	5.4 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 August 2002	Debris and open burning	10 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 July 1993	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	not named

Every fire recorded in Charleston County

Storms near this property

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McClellanville, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1995: 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
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	McClellanville	$2,000	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Charleston 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
McClellanville Historic District	0.3 miles	1982
Old Georgetown Road	3.1 miles	2014
Old Georgetown Road	3.2 miles	2014
Old Georgetown Road	3.3 miles	2014
Old Georgetown Road	3.4 miles	2014
Old Georgetown Road	3.6 miles	2014

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04000651 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Charleston County	All 227 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.
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.