Mulberry Chapel Methodist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

From the record

“Mulberry Chapel Methodist Church, also known as Mulberry Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church and Mulberry Chapel, is a historic Methodist church located near Pacolet, Cherokee County, South Carolina. It was built about 1880, and is a one-story, vernacular Gothic Revival style frame church building.”
Wikipedia article Mulberry Chapel Methodist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Cherokee County · listed in 2012 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 582 Asbury Rd., Pacolet, 29372
When was it listed? June 2012
Category. building
Census division. Saratt
National Register reference number. 12000370 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

104 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Mulberry Chapel Methodist Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 443 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 8 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	48
Debris and open burning	22
Arson/incendiarism	8
Natural	7
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Smoking	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Other causes	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 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2016	Natural	15 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1997	Smoking	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2002	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Mulberry Chapel Methodist Church: 3 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Stone, Dimension, Tantalum, Niobium (Columbium). 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
Cherokee County Peg	Tantalum, Niobium (Columbium)	Unknown
Unnamed Furnace Rock Quarries Gl - 028	Stone, Dimension	Unknown	1865
Nott Hill Mine	Gold	Past Producer
Nuckols and Norris Mines	Gold	Unknown	Vein

Every working recorded in Cherokee 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

1 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
	Nuckolls-Jefferies House	0.3 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 12000370 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cherokee County	All 14 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.