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Photograph of Catawba Rosenwald School
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Catawba Rosenwald School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

From the record

“The Catawba Rosenwald School is a historic school building at 3071 South Anderson Road United States Route 21) in Catawba, South Carolina. It is a single-story wood-frame structure, built in 1924-25 with support from the Rosenwald Fund, to one of the fund's architectural plans.”

Wikipedia article Catawba Rosenwald School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 62 National Register listings published here for York County · listed in 2013 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 3071 S. Anderson Rd., Catawba, 29704
  • When was it listed? July 2013
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Rosenwald School Building Program in South Carolina, 1917-1932
  • Census division. Rock Hill
  • National Register reference number. 13000465 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

138 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Catawba Rosenwald School between 1992 and 2019, burning about 361 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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/undetermined53
Debris and open burning44
Equipment and vehicle use12
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Arson/incendiarism7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Other causes3
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in York County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Catawba Rosenwald School: 4 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unnamed Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknownIgneous
Ashe MineClayUnknownSedimentary
Ashe MineClayPast Producer
Faile MineClayProducer
John Barnette MineClayPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Yoder #1(Yoder#2)ClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Yoder #2 (Robert Yoder)ClayPast ProducerMetamorphic

Every working recorded in York County

Storms near this property

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Catawba, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2019: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2002Thunderstorm WindCatawba$1,000Some trees and powerlines were blown down.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindCatawba-County comms reported multiple trees blown down in the southeastern portion of York County.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindCatawba-Several large tree limbs were blown down around Catawba.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindCatawba-A large section was torn off of a metal building at a paper plant. Several trees were also blown down in the area.
July 2003HailCatawba-no account filed
May 2003HailCatawba-no account filed
May 2003Thunderstorm WindCatawba-no account filed
May 2003HailCatawba-no account filed
June 1998HailCatawba-no account filed

Every storm recorded in York 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

3 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Withers Building5.4 miles1981
Highland Park Manufacturing Plant and Cotton Oil Complex7.5 miles1992
R.L. and Annie Sturgis House7.8 miles2022

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 13000465 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
York CountyAll 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.