John De La Howe State School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

From the record

One of 22 National Register listings published here for McCormick County · listed in 1970 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listed as. De La Howe, John, State School - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 192 Gettys Rd, Francis Marion and Sumter National Forests,, McCormick, 29835
When was it listed? June 1970
Category. building
Census division. Mount Carmel
National Register reference number. 100001247 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

126 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 126 fires within 5 miles of John De La Howe State School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 956 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 22 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/undetermined	39
Debris and open burning	32
Arson/incendiarism	22
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Recreation and ceremony	5
Natural	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Smoking	3
Other causes	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2001	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	97 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	LITTLE RIVER FIRE
16 September 2011	Other causes	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2011	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in McCormick 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 John De La Howe State School: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese. 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
	Parsons Mt. Area-Piedmont Mn Belt	Manganese	Prospect

Every working recorded in McCormick County

Storms near this property

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McCormick, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 2 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
September 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	McCormick	$5,000	Numerous trees and powerlines down McCormick to Modoc.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	McCormick	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in McCormick 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
Guillebeau House	1.7 miles	1973
Gibert, John Albert, M.D., House	2.1 miles	1993
Calhoun-Gibert House	3.5 miles	1996
Long Cane Massacre Site	5.1 miles	1983
Lower Long Cane Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	5.6 miles	1999
Calhoun Mill	6.3 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100001247 in Record Group 79.
McCormick County	All 22 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.