Phillips Community Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.

From the record

One of 227 National Register listings published here for Charleston County · listed in 2023 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 37 buildingss, 7 sitess, 4 structuress, 2 objectss as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. SC 41, approx. between Virginia Rouse and Joe Rouse Rds., roughly bounded by Horlbeck Cr., Dunes West, and Park West, Mount Pleasant, 29466
When was it listed? September 2023
Category. district
Census division. Mount Pleasant
National Register reference number. 100008589 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

119 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Phillips Community Historic District between 1992 and 2015, burning about 951 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	60
Debris and open burning	35
Arson/incendiarism	17
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
21 August 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
13 August 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
1 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 July 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	45 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 July 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.2 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
14 July 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
10 July 1998	Natural	7.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
1 July 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Charleston County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Phillips Community Historic District: 4 unknowns, 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Clay, Iron, Titanium, Zirconium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Island Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay	Unknown	Sedimentary
Island Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay	Producer
Isle of Palms (Area 1)	Iron, Titanium, Zirconium	Unknown	Placer , Modern , Beach
Isle of Palms (Area 2)	Iron, Titanium, Thorium	Unknown	Placer , Modern , Beach
Wando Quadrangle	Titanium, Iron	Unknown	Placer , Modern , Beach
East Copper #1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
R & L Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Shell Point (Mt. Pleasant Pit)	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Sedimentary
Yaupon Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Charleston 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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Cook's Old Field Cemetery	1.1 miles	2003
Christ Church	1.3 miles	1972
Boone Hall Plantation House and Historic Landscape (Boundary Increase)	1.3 miles	1994
Slave Street, Smokehouse, and Allee, Boone Hall Plantation	1.4 miles	1983
Snee Farm-Charles Pinckney National Historic Site	1.7 miles	1973
Oakland Plantation House	2.7 miles	1977

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100008589 in Record Group 79.
Charleston County	All 227 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.