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One of 64 National Register listings published here for Spartanburg County · listed in 2023 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Startex Finishing Company
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.
The listing
- Address. 21-23 North Main St., Startex, 29377
- When was it listed? March 2023
- Category. district
- Census division. Wellford
- National Register reference number. 100008528 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
125 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Startex Finishing Company between 1992 and 2020, burning about 471 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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 | 60 |
| Debris and open burning | 34 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 August 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.8 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 August 2002 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.4 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 July 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 July 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Startex Finishing Company: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Granite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arbuckle Quarry | Granite | Producer |
Storms near this property
4 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Startex, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2014 and 2023: 2 lightning, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2014 | Lightning | Startex | 1 hurt | Media reported a teenage male received minor injuries and a dog was killed when lightning struck a nearby chain link fence on Blue Springs Dr. |
| July 2016 | Lightning | Startex | $2,000 | County comms reported a lightning strike ignited a fire which burned down an outbuilding in the Startex community. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Startex | - | Multiple sources reported multiple trees and large limbs blown down from the Duncan/Moore area to Roebuck. Impacted roads included Highway 290, Reidville Rd, and Hickory Dr. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Startex | - | Public reported 3/4 inch hail fell off I-85 just north of the Highway 290 intersection. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | New Hope Farm | 1.7 miles | 1999 |
| Augustus Belton and Margaret Wheeler Groce House | 2.1 miles | 2024 | |
 | McMakin's Tavern | 4.4 miles | 1974 |
 | Reidville Academy Faculty House | 4.8 miles | 1997 |
 | Anderson's Mill | 5.8 miles | 1978 |
 | Arcadia Mill No. 2 | 5.8 miles | 2005 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100008528 in Record Group 79. |
| Spartanburg County | All 64 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.