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One of 38 National Register listings published here for Georgetown County · listed in 2020 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Sandy Island School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 32 Sandy Island Rd., Sandy Island, 29585
- When was it listed? October 2020
- Category. building
- Census division. Plantersville
- National Register reference number. 100005641 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
142 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of Sandy Island School between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,306 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 36 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 | 55 |
| Debris and open burning | 44 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 36 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 August 2008 | Natural | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 August 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 August 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 August 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 8.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 July 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.5 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 June 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Brookgreen Gardens | 1.5 miles | 1978 |
 | Pee Dee River Rice Planters Historic District | 2.4 miles | 2020 |
 | Atalaya | 2.6 miles | 1984 |
 | Chicora Wood Plantation | 2.6 miles | 1973 |
 | Prince Frederick's Chapel Ruins | 3.1 miles | 1974 |
 | Cedar Grove Plantation Chapel | 3.7 miles | 1991 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100005641 in Record Group 79. |
| Georgetown County | All 38 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.