Pleasant Grove School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.

From the record

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Clarendon County · listed in 2023 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 1012 Joe and Marie Rd., Alcolu, 29001
When was it listed? September 2023
Category. building
Census division. Alcolu
National Register reference number. 100009383 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

271 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 271 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Grove School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,320 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 55 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	118
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	81
Arson/incendiarism	55
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Natural	4
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

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 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2004	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2001	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Clarendon County

Storms near this property

23 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alcolu, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 11 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 4 flash flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 4 injuries. 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
September 2004	Tornado (F1)	Alcolu	4 hurt	An F1 tornado destroyed 2 mobile homes and damaged several others. Light to moderate damage occurred to the elementary school and its busses. Severe damage occurred to large open air outbuildings at a mill across the street from the school.
October 2015	Flash Flood	Alcolu	$800,000	SC Highway Patrol reports I-95 closed at mile marker 124 due to flooding.
October 2015	Flash Flood	Alcolu	$500,000	Clarendon County dispatch reported I-95 has been closed again both northbound and southbound between mile markers 98 and 135 due to flooding.
October 2015	Flash Flood	Alcolu	$500,000	Clarendon County dispatch reports that several roads that had flooded in the previous rain event and reopened had to be closed again this evening due to recent rain and runoff in the Manning and Alcolu areas.
October 2015	Flash Flood	Alcolu	$100,000	Plowdenmill Road near I-95 and Hwy 521 closed due to impassible water covering the roadway. Reported by the Emergency Operations Center.
November 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Alcolu	$85,000	Storm Survey found an intense microburst destroyed a garage/workshop and took down numerous trees. Shingles, facia, and soffett were also torn off the home.
September 1997	Lightning	Alcolu	$60,000	Lightning struck a church in the early morning hours and did $60K in damage to the facility.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Alcolu	$14,000	Highway Patrol reported a tree on a car along I-95 at mile marker 125. The car was parked on the side of the road and was unattended.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Alcolu	$6,000	Sheriff reported trees down on Alderman Camp Road.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Alcolu	$4,000	Public reported trees down on Old Georgetown Road blocking traffic.
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Alcolu	-	A tree fell on a line on Old Georgetown Rd near Clyburn Rd, north of Manning. Time estimated.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Alcolu	-	SCDOT reported trees down in Alcolu.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Alcolu	-	SC Highway Patrol reported a downed tree blocking portions of I-95 at mile marker 126.5. Downed tree confirmed via DOT highway camera. Time estimated by radar.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Alcolu	-	Tree in roadway near the intersection of Robert Rees Durant Rd and US Hwy 301. Time estimated.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Alcolu	-	Highway Patrol reported a tree fell on a car on I-95 at mile marker 125. The vehicle was unoccupied.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Alcolu	-	Public reported numerous large branches down.
March 2000	Hail	Alcolu	-	Sheriff reported 3/4 inch hail.
May 2000	Hail	Alcolu	-	SKYWARN spotter reported 1 inch hail from Alcolu to 5 S of New Zion on hwy 527.
May 2000	Hail	Alcolu	-	SKYWARN spotter reported 3/4 inch hail.
April 1999	Hail	Alcolu	-	Post Office reporte dime size hail at I95 and hwy 49.
June 1998	Hail	Alcolu	-	Sheriff reported 3/4 inch hail.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Alcolu	-	Severe thunderstorms developed across central and northeast South Carolina causing considerable damage. A lightning-caused fire heavily damaged a home in Alcolu; also, a roof was blown off a mobile home near Alcolu and trees were blown down near Manning. A car in Florence was struck by a falling tree, injuring the passenger. A 12-year-old girl in Florence received a mild shock from a lightning strike.
June 1996	Hail	Alcolu	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clarendon 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

4 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
Manning Library	5.3 miles	1979
Manning Commercial Historic District	5.5 miles	2010
Clarendon County Health Center and Office Building	5.6 miles	2022
Alderman's 20 Stores in One	6.0 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100009383 in Record Group 79.
Clarendon 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.