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One of 22 National Register listings published here for McCormick County · listed in 2024 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
McCormick County Office Building
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.
The listing
- Address. 201 East Augusta Street, McCormick, 29835
- When was it listed? January 2024
- Category. building
- Census division. McCormick
- National Register reference number. 100009699 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
164 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 164 fires within 5 miles of McCormick County Office Building between 1992 and 2020, burning about 592 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 3 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 | 89 |
| Debris and open burning | 35 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 14 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 12 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of McCormick County Office Building: 9 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Barium-Barite, Zinc, Copper, Copper. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abernathy and Kehaya/Dorn Mine | Manganese | Past Producer | 1942 | |
| Barite Hill | Gold, Barium-Barite, Copper, Silver, Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | Pyrite, Gold, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite | |
| Butler Prospect | Barium-Barite, Gold, Zinc, Copper | Past Producer | 1860 | |
| Jennings Mine | Gold, Copper | Unknown | 1860 | |
| Dorn Mine | Gold, Zinc, Copper | Past Producer | Vein/Stratabound | |
| Dorn Mine | Gold, Barium-Barite | Past Producer | ||
| Self Mine | Gold, Barium-Barite | Past Producer | 1860 | |
| Barite Hill | Gold | Past Producer | 1984, 1991 | |
| Butler Prospect | Gold | Occurrence | ||
| Jennings Prospect | Gold | Prospect |
Storms near this property
2 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McCormick, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | McCormick | $5,000 | Numerous trees and powerlines down McCormick to Modoc. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | McCormick | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | McCormick Train Station | under 500 feet | 1985 |
 | Farmer's Bank | under 500 feet | 1985 |
 | Hotel Keturah | 0.1 miles | 1985 |
 | M. L. B. Sturkey House | 0.1 miles | 1985 |
 | Joseph Jennings Dorn House | 0.1 miles | 1985 |
 | Otway Henderson House | 0.2 miles | 1985 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100009699 in Record Group 79. |
| McCormick County | All 22 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.