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One of 56 National Register listings published here for Lexington County · listed in 2018 · category: Building · built in 1951.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Colonial-Hites Company
Built in 1951. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 228 N Parson St, West Columbia, 29169
- When was it listed? May 2018
- Category. building
- Census division. West Columbia-Cayce
- When was it built? 1951
- National Register reference number. 100002526 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
251 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 251 fires within 5 miles of Colonial-Hites Company between 1992 and 2020, burning about 494 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 17 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 | 112 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 59 |
| Debris and open burning | 20 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 17 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 14 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 September 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.5 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2010 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.5 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 August 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 31 August 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 15 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Colonial-Hites Company: 6 producers, 6 past producers, 3 unknowns. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zirconium, Thorium, Titanium, Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cayce Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Cayce Silica Plant | Silica | Unknown | ||
| Congaree River | Zirconium, Thorium, Titanium, Iron | Unknown | Placer , Modern , Fluvial | |
| Dixiana Mine | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Green Hole | Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension, Granite | Past Producer | Igneous | |
| Guignard Mill | Clay, Kaolin | Past Producer | ||
| Westinghouse Elec. Corp--Columbia | Thorium | Unknown | ||
| Cayce Quarry | Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | 1893 | |
| Columbia Quarry | Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | 1883 | |
| Brick Plant No. 2 | Clay | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
15 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Columbia, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1995 and 2011: 8 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2003 | Lightning | West Columbia | $55,000 | Lightning struck a home setting on fire and destroying it. |
| February 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Columbia | $14,000 | Public reported roof partially torn off a building and damage to a car. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Columbia | $2,000 | West Columbia police reported powerlines down on several roads. |
| April 1995 | Hail | West Columbia | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | West Columbia | $1,000 | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Columbia | - | EM reported some trees down on East Steel street. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Columbia | - | NWS employee reported large limbs down on Mineral Springs road in the Saluda Shoals subdivision. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Columbia | - | Sheriff reported several trees down at Lexington Hospital on hwy 378. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Columbia | - | West Columbia police reported numerous trees down. |
| March 2000 | Hail | West Columbia | - | Radio and TV stations reported golf ball size hail. |
| April 1998 | Hail | West Columbia | - | TV 10 spotter reported golf ball size hail at the Lexington Medical Center near I26 and hwy 378. |
| April 1998 | Hail | West Columbia | - | SKYWARN spotter reported 3/4 inch hail at Oak Dr. and U.S.1. |
| April 1998 | Hail | West Columbia | - | SKYWARN spotter reported 3/4 inch hail on U.S.1. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Columbia | - | Sheriff reports trees down. |
| April 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Columbia | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Gunter-Summers House | 0.7 miles | 1987 |
 | Still Hopes | 1.0 miles | 1983 |
| Professional Building | 1.2 miles | 2025 | |
 | New Brookland Historic District | 1.4 miles | 1978 |
 | Gervais Street Bridge | 1.6 miles | 1980 |
 | Guignard Brick Works | 1.6 miles | 1995 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100002526 in Record Group 79. |
| Lexington County | All 56 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.