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Photograph of St. Luke's Parish Zion Chapel of Ease Cemetery
Photograph by Upstateherd, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

St. Luke's Parish Zion Chapel of Ease Cemetery

Built in 1846. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.

From the record

“Luke's Parish Zion Chapel of Ease Cemetery is a historic cemetery and chapel site at 574 William Hilton Parkway in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. The cemetery was established in the 18th century, and includes a fine collection late 18th and early 19th century funerary art.”

Wikipedia article St. Luke's Parish Zion Chapel of Ease Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 62 National Register listings published here for Beaufort County · listed in 2017 · category: Site · built in 1846.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 33 objectss, 1 site, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 574 William Hilton Pkwy., Hilton Head Island, 29928
  • When was it listed? October 2017
  • Category. site
  • Census division. Hilton Head Island
  • When was it built? 1846
  • National Register reference number. 100000727 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

33 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of St. Luke's Parish Zion Chapel of Ease Cemetery between 1992 and 2011, burning about 142 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined19
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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 August 1995Naturalunder an acrePinckney Island National Wildlife RefugeBULL NO1
23 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 June 1999Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 June 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 June 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 May 2002Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 May 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 May 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Beaufort 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 St. Luke's Parish Zion Chapel of Ease Cemetery: 2 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zirconium, Titanium, Thorium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, REE, Zirconium, Titanium. 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
Gumtree Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Hilton Head IslandZirconium, Titanium, ThoriumUnknownPlacer-Modern-Fluvial
Hilton Head Island DepositREE, Zirconium, TitaniumPast Producer1879

Every working recorded in Beaufort County

Storms near this property

2 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hilton Head Island, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 1995: 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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
June 1995Tornado (F1)Hilton Head Island$500,000no account filed
January 1995HailHilton Head Island-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Beaufort 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

5 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
Fort Howell2.2 miles2011
Cherry Hill School2.3 miles2012
Rear Lighthouse of Hilton Head Range Light Station3.5 miles1985
Fort Mitchel3.9 miles2017
Fort Fremont Battery7.9 miles2010

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100000727 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Beaufort CountyAll 62 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.