Ridge Hill High School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

From the record

“Ridge Hill High School, also known as Ridge Spring Star Community Center, is a historic high-school building for African-American students located at Ridge Spring, Saluda County, South Carolina. It was built in 1934, and is a large, one-story, H-shaped building with a central multipurpose room and six classrooms.”
Wikipedia article Ridge Hill High School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Saluda 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. 206 Ridge Hill Dr, Ridge Spring, 29129
When was it listed? June 2010
Category. building
Census division. Ridge Spring
National Register reference number. 10000341 - 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

120 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of Ridge Hill High School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 568 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 14 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
Debris and open burning	53
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	31
Arson/incendiarism	14
Natural	8
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Smoking	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
4 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2019	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 1999	Natural	6.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 2009	Natural	7.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Saluda County

Storms near this property

3 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ridge Spring, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1995 and 1997: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Ridge Spring	-	County Highway Dept. reports trees and powerlines down.
November 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Ridge Spring	-	Trees were knocked down.
October 1995	Hail	Ridge Spring	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saluda 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Spann Methodist Church and Cemetery	3.9 miles	2003

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 10000341 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Saluda County	All 10 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.