Holly Hill Downtown Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.

From the record

One of 42 National Register listings published here for Orangeburg County · listed in 2024 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Portions of Gardner Blvd., Old State Road, and Railroad Ave., Holly Hill, 29059
When was it listed? January 2024
Category. district
Census division. Holly Hill
National Register reference number. 100009752 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

400 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 400 fires within 5 miles of Holly Hill Downtown Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,420 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 65 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	163
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	113
Arson/incendiarism	65
Smoking	28
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Other causes	2
Natural	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 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2018	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2007	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2019	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Orangeburg County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Holly Hill Downtown Historic District: 3 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Clay, Cement Rock, Stone. 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
Holly Hill Mine	Clay	Unknown	Sedimentary
Holly Hill Quarry & Cement Plant	Stone	Producer
Santee Portland Limestone Quarry	Cement Rock	Producer	Sedimentary
Harleyville Quarry	Limestone, General	Unknown	Sedimentary
Holly Hill Quarry	Limestone, General	Unknown	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Orangeburg County

Storms near this property

40 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Holly Hill, the town this property stands in, in 40 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 16 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 7 flash flood, 4 heavy rain. 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
October 2015	Flash Flood	Holly Hill	$500,000	Orangeburg County EM reports street flooding in multiple locations in Holly Hill and Santee. One road is washed out.
August 2023	Flash Flood	Holly Hill	$250,000	Orangeburg County Emergency Manager reported multiple flooded and impassable roads in and around Holly Hill. 6 inches of water covering roadways.
October 2016	Flash Flood	Holly Hill	$20,000	Orangeburg County EOC reported Old State Road in Holly Hill closed due to flooding. Also, flooding occurring in some buildings in Holly Hill. Water estimated to be 2 to 3 feet deep.
October 2015	Flash Flood	Holly Hill	$14,000	EM reported roads in Holly Hill covered with water, some impassible. There were also several rural roads flooded and one washout.
February 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Holly Hill	$8,000	Hwy Dept. reported power outages in Holly Hill and the surrounding area from several trees and powerlines down.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Holly Hill	$3,000	Highway Patrol reported trees down on Hwy 453 near Hwy 176 in Holly Hill.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Holly Hill	$2,000	EM reported several trees down in the Holly Hill area.
April 2022	Hail	Holly Hill	$10	Pea sized hail reported in Holly Hill. Time estimated.
August 2024	Flash Flood	Holly Hill	-	County Emergency Management reported street flooding in downtown Holly Hill. Several reports of flooded roadways with some areas seeing water up to the door handle of cars.
August 2024	Flash Flood	Holly Hill	-	Video shared via social media of flooding on Bennett Circle with water covering parts of the road and adjacent front yards.
August 2024	Flash Flood	Holly Hill	-	SCDPS website reported flooding at the intersection of Bunch Ford Road (SC-314) and Gator Drive.
August 2023	Heavy Rain	Holly Hill	-	NWS Cooperative Observer at the Holly Hill Wastewater Treatment Plant reported storm total rainfall of 13.55 inches in 24 hours.
April 2022	Hail	Holly Hill	-	Dime to nickel sized hail reported in Holly Hill. Time estimated.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Holly Hill	-	Trees down on Camden Rd in Holly Hill. Time estimated.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Holly Hill	-	Tree in roadway at the intersection of Gilway St and Gum St. Time estimated.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Holly Hill	-	Report, received via social media, of a large tree down on Boyer Rd in Holly Hill. Time estimated.
April 2017	Heavy Rain	Holly Hill	-	CoCoRaHS station SC-OR-5 reported 1.06 inches of rain within 1 hour, with minor flooding.
September 2017	Heavy Rain	Holly Hill	-	COOP observer near Holly Hill measured a total rainfall amount of 7.18 inches.
August 2011	Heavy Rain	Holly Hill	-	Spotter reported 3.70 inches of rain and winds of 30-40mph at 715pm.
May 2009	Hail	Holly Hill	-	Public reported penny size hail on Old State road.
May 2009	Hail	Holly Hill	-	Public reported nickel size hail on Old State road.
May 2009	Hail	Holly Hill	-	Target United Methodist Church reported penny size hail and estimated wind gusts to 50 mph.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Holly Hill	-	Several large limbs down across Holly Hill Country Club.
June 2008	Hail	Holly Hill	-	Sheriff reported penny size hail.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Holly Hill	-	Emergency manager reported many trees down from Holly Hill to Eutawville.
April 2006	Hail	Holly Hill	-	Highway dept. reported 3/4 inch hail.
May 2006	Hail	Holly Hill	-	Public reported nickel size hail.
June 2005	Hail	Holly Hill	-	SKYWARN spotter reported that 3/4 inch hail fell for about 5 or 6 minutes.
April 2003	Tornado (F0)	Holly Hill	-	An F0 tornado intermittently touched down from Connors to Bayview taking down trees and powerlines.
July 2003	Hail	Holly Hill	-	General public reported nickel size hail.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Holly Hill	-	EOC reported trees down in Holly Hill and Eutawville.
April 2000	Hail	Holly Hill	-	NWS Coop observer reported nickel size hail.
August 1999	Hail	Holly Hill	-	EOC reported nickel size hail.
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Holly Hill	-	Highway Patrol reported trees and powerlines down.
March 1999	Hail	Holly Hill	-	Police reported 3/4 inch hail.
June 1998	Hail	Holly Hill	-	Post Office reported 1 inch hail.
September 1998	Tornado (F0)	Holly Hill	-	EPD reported two small tornadoes rotating around each other in the swamp east of highway 453.
September 1998	Hail	Holly Hill	-	Postal carrier reported nickel size hail in north Holly Hill.
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Holly Hill	-	no account filed
May 1995	Hail	Holly Hill	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Orangeburg 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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	McCoy Farmstead	1.5 miles	2019
	St. Julien Plantation	7.0 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100009752 in Record Group 79.
Orangeburg County	All 42 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.