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Pacolet Mills Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“Pacolet Mills Historic District is a national historic district in Pacolet, Spartanburg County, South Carolina. It encompasses 126 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site in the mill village of Pacolet.”

Wikipedia article Pacolet Mills Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 64 National Register listings published here for Spartanburg County · listed in 2007 · category: District.

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

The listing

Fires near this property

111 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Pacolet Mills Historic District between 1992 and 2017, burning about 492 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined60
Debris and open burning29
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural3
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
30 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2002Arson/incendiarism20 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 1999Smoking10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Spartanburg County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Pacolet Mills Historic District: 3 producers, 3 unknowns, 2 past producers, 1 plant. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Feldspar, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper. 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
Deaton's Sand PitSandUnknownSedimentary
Hammet Mine, Crocker MineGold, CopperUnknown1818, 1825, 1857
Pacolet MillFeldsparPlant
Pacolet MineFeldsparProducer
Pacolet QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerIgneous
Pacolet QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hammet Grove MineGoldPast ProducerMetamorphic Stratform
Hammet MineGoldPast Producer
Nuckols and Norris MinesGoldUnknownVein

Every working recorded in Spartanburg County

Storms near this property

20 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pacolet, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1993 and 2020: 11 hail, 9 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2020Thunderstorm WindPacolet$10,000Media reported trees blown down on power lines and across part of a house.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindPacolet$1,000Some trees and power lines were blown down.
May 2020HailPacolet-National Weather Service Columbia relayed report of quarter size hail in the Pacolet Mills area.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindPacolet-County comms reported trees and power lines blown down on Zion Church Rd.
July 2007HailPacolet-Reported at the intersection of Jerusalem Rd and Quinn St.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindPacolet-A three to four inch diameter tree snapped, a 5 inch diameter limb blown down, and some shingles blown off a roof.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindPacolet-Trees down in Pacolet. Trees also down in Cowpens around this time.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindPacolet-Several large, 6-inch diamater limbs were blown down. Some trees were also blown down in the area.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindPacolet-Trees were blown down.
February 2009HailPacolet-no account filed
June 2008HailPacolet-no account filed
June 2008HailPacolet-no account filed
May 2006HailPacolet-no account filed
June 2006HailPacolet-no account filed
June 2004HailPacolet-no account filed
June 1998HailPacolet-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindPacolet-no account filed
June 1997HailPacolet-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindPacolet-no account filed
March 1993HailPacolet-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Spartanburg 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Pacolet Mills Cloth Room and Warehouse0.2 miles2006
Pacolet Mill Office0.2 miles2004
Marysville School0.7 miles2007
Bivings-Converse House5.4 miles1995
Converse Mill7.2 miles2015
Cowpens Depot7.4 miles1997

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 07001207 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Spartanburg CountyAll 64 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.