BlockFrom the record
One of 62 National Register listings published here for York County · listed in 2025 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Fort Mill Manufacturing Company Mill No. 2
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.
The listing
- Address. 104 Williamson Street, Fort Mill, 29715
- When was it listed? May 2025
- Category. district
- Census division. Fort Mill
- National Register reference number. 100011847 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
58 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Fort Mill Manufacturing Company Mill No. 2 between 1992 and 2019, burning about 186 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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 | 26 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1999 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 3.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 10 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Fort Mill Manufacturing Company Mill No. 2: 3 unknowns, 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Mica, Iron. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clawson Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Clawson Mine Or Sutton Mine | Gold | Unknown | 1856 | |
| Indian Graveyard Mine | Mica | Past Producer | ||
| Catawba River Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | Sedimentary | |
| Catawba River Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Fewell Island Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Unnamed Gravel Pits | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | Residual, Igneous |
Storms near this property
1 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Mill, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fort Mill | - | no account filed |
Newspapers printed here
6,118 digitised pages2 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 1,364 issues, 6,118 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
| Newspaper | Published |
|---|---|
| Fort Mill Times | 1892 to 2020 |
| The Fort Mill News | 1890 to 1892 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Nation Ford Road | 0.2 miles | 2007 |
 | Mills House | 0.3 miles | 1992 |
 | Thornwell-Elliott House | 0.3 miles | 1992 |
 | Fort Mill Downtown Historic District | 0.4 miles | 1992 |
 | Banks-Mack House | 0.4 miles | 1992 |
 | Wilson House | 0.4 miles | 1992 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100011847 in Record Group 79. |
| York County | All 62 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.