Apalache Mill

Built in 1888. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

From the record

“The Apalache Mill, now the Lofts by the Lake, is a historic textile mill at 2200 Racing Road in Apalache, South Carolina. The main mill building, a three-story brick building with plain late-19th century styling, sits at the southern end of Apalachee Lake, created by damming the Tyger River at a narrow gorge just to the east.”
Wikipedia article Apalache Mill, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 64 National Register listings published here for Spartanburg County · listed in 2015 · category: District · built in 1888.

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

The listing

Address. 2200 Racing Rd., Greer, 29651
When was it listed? December 2015
Category. district
Census division. Greer
When was it built? 1888
National Register reference number. 15000616 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

62 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Apalache Mill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 258 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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	35
Debris and open burning	16
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Arson/incendiarism	2
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
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
15 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	2.8 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
13 August 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
1 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	60 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
10 July 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Spartanburg 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 Apalache Mill: 2 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Gold, Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Briggs Prospect	Gold	Unknown	Vein
Clark-Tyger Sand Mine	Sand	Unknown	Sedimentary
H L Shelton Deposit	Mica	Occurrence
I L Tigert Prospect	Iron	Occurrence
Rester Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Spartanburg 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
McMakin's Tavern	3.2 miles	1974
Augustus Belton and Margaret Wheeler Groce House	5.1 miles	2024
Startex Finishing Company	6.8 miles	2023
James M. Davis House	7.3 miles	2010
New Hope Farm	8.0 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 15000616 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Spartanburg County	All 64 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.