Hopewell Rosenwald School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

From the record

“Hopewell Rosenwald School is a historic Rosenwald school located near Clarks Hill in McCormick County, South Carolina. It was built in 1926-1927, and is a One Teacher Community Plan school consisting of two smaller rooms and one large room.”
Wikipedia article Hopewell Rosenwald School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for McCormick County · listed in 2010 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Adjacent to 253 Hopewell Church Road (SC Sec RD 33-12), Clarks Hill, 29821
When was it listed? June 2010
Category. building
Also known as. Rosenwald School Building Program in South Carolina, 1917-1932
Census division. Parksville
National Register reference number. 10000340 - 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

132 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Hopewell Rosenwald School between 1992 and 2019, burning about 561 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 11 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	48
Debris and open burning	35
Railroad operations and maintenance	14
Arson/incendiarism	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	1
Natural	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
3 September 1999	Railroad operations and maintenance	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-COLUMBIA-004
19 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1997	Railroad operations and maintenance	18 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 1992	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in McCormick County

Storms near this property

12 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clarks Hill, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1998 and 2017: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarks Hill	$18,000	Aiken Standard reported trees down in Clarks Hill Park from the storms. One tree fell on a camper destroying it and just missing the occupants.
October 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarks Hill	$8,000	EM reported trees down on Hwy 28 near Clarks Hill.
May 2017	Hail	Clarks Hill	-	Quarter size hail reported at the Lake Thurmond Visitors Center.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarks Hill	-	NWS observation tower atop the Lake Thurmond Dam recorded a wind gust to 60 mph.
March 2010	Hail	Clarks Hill	-	Public reported 1 inch hail on Pine Lane Road in southern McCormick County.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarks Hill	-	Post Office reported numerous trees down along hwy 28.
May 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarks Hill	-	Mesonet site at Clarks Hill recorded a 73mph gust.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarks Hill	-	Sheriff and Post Office reported trees down from Clarks Hill to Meriwether.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarks Hill	-	Sheriff reoprted a couple of trees down in Clarks Hill.
May 1998	Tornado (F0)	Clarks Hill	-	An F0 tornado took down trees at Clarks Hill Recreation Area.
May 1998	Hail	Clarks Hill	-	SKYWARN spotter reported nickel size hail.
April 1998	Hail	Clarks Hill	-	Spotter reports dime size hail.

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 10000340 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.
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.