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Photograph of Lynchburg Presbyterian Church
Photograph by Eastward Gypsy, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Lynchburg Presbyterian Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“Lynchburg Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located at South Lynchburg, Lee County, South Carolina. It was built in 1855, and is a two-story temple-form Greek Revival style building with an engaged tetrastyle portico featuring four massive stuccoed solid brick columns.”

Wikipedia article Lynchburg Presbyterian Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Lee 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 listing

  • Address. SC 341, South Lynchburg, 29080
  • When was it listed? October 2004
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Lynchburg
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 04001088 - 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

592 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 592 fires within 5 miles of Lynchburg Presbyterian Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,721 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 170 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
Debris and open burning194
Missing data/not specified/undetermined194
Arson/incendiarism170
Equipment and vehicle use15
Smoking8
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2007Debris and open burning1.6 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Debris and open burning10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2015Debris and open burning7.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2010Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Lee 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 Lynchburg Presbyterian Church: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Lee PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rhinehart No. 1 MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Smith Paving Co MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Lee County

Storms near this property

5 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Lynchburg, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2011 and 2021: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
May 2021HailSouth Lynchburg-Trained spotter reported hail up to golf ball size in the town of Lynchburg. Time estimated.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindSouth Lynchburg-SCHP reported trees down at SC 341 and US Hwy 76 in Lynchburg.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindSouth Lynchburg-Sheriff's Dispatch reported a tree down along Hwy. 76 just outside of the town of Lynchburg.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindSouth Lynchburg-Lynchburg Post Office reported trees down on the south side of Lynchburg off Hwy 341. One tree was on a house.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindSouth Lynchburg-Post Office reported large limbs down across several roadways.

Every storm recorded in Lee 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

1 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
Tanglewood Plantation3.2 miles1977

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 04001088 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lee CountyAll 18 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.