Callawassie Sugar Works

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

From the record

“The Callawassie Sugar Works is a historically significant industrial site at 29 Sugar Mill Drive in Okatie, South Carolina, on Callawassie Island in Beaufort County. The site contains the tabby ruins of two structures and archeological evidence of a third structure.”
Wikipedia article Callawassie Sugar Works, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 62 National Register listings published here for Beaufort County · listed in 2014 · category: Site.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 29 Sugar Mill Dr., Okatie, 29909
When was it listed? May 2014
Category. site
Census division. Bluffton
National Register reference number. 13001096 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

85 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Callawassie Sugar Works between 1992 and 2018, burning about 645 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 18 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	40
Arson/incendiarism	18
Debris and open burning	17
Natural	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Fireworks	2
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
4 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 July 2018	Fireworks	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
31 July 2002	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
31 July 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 July 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 July 2012	Natural	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Beaufort 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

5 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Rose Hill Plantation House	2.9 miles	1983
St. Luke's Church	6.9 miles	1987
Campbell Chapel AME Church	6.9 miles	2019
Bluffton Historic District	7.1 miles	1996
Church of the Cross	7.2 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 13001096 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Beaufort 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.