Alexander Bache U.S. Coast Survey Line

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“Coast Survey Line is a historic geodetic survey line located at Edisto Island, Charleston County, South Carolina. This base line was surveyed by Alexander Dallas Bache and his assistants during January 1850 as part of their work with the United States Coast Survey.”
Wikipedia article Alexander Bache U.S. Coast Survey Line, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 227 National Register listings published here for Charleston County · listed in 2007 · category: Structure.

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

The listing

Listed as. Bache, Alexander, U.S. Coast Survey Line - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 8377 State Cabin Rd., Edisto Island, 29438
When was it listed? October 2007
Category. structure
Census division. Edisto Island
National Register reference number. 07001082 - 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

54 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Alexander Bache U.S. Coast Survey Line between 1992 and 2019, burning about 329 acres in total. None started naturally. 15 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 burning	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Arson/incendiarism	15
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2013	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 July 2000	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 June 2001	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 June 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 June 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	60 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Charleston County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Alexander Bache U.S. Coast Survey Line: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Zirconium, Iron. 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
	Edisto Island Quadrangle	Titanium, Zirconium, Iron	Unknown	Placer , Modern , Beach

Every working 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
Seaside Plantation House	1.1 miles	1982
Seaside School	1.2 miles	1994
Crawford's Plantation House	1.7 miles	1993
Bailey's Store	2.0 miles	1986
Wescott Road	2.3 miles	1986
Sunnyside Plantation Foreman's House (Boundary Increase)	2.6 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07001082 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.
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.