Hickman Mill Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.

From the record

“The Hickman Mill Historic District encompasses an early 20th-century textile mill complex in Graniteville, South Carolina. It is located just south of the older Graniteville Mill, and is bounded on the north by Marshall Street, the east by Canal Street, and the south by Hard Street.”
Wikipedia article Hickman Mill Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Aiken County · listed in 2016 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Bounded by Horse Cr., Marshall, Canal & Hard Sts., Graniteville, 29829
When was it listed? February 2016
Category. district
Census division. Aiken
National Register reference number. 16000046 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

559 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 559 fires within 5 miles of Hickman Mill Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,537 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 92 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
Debris and open burning	156
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	152
Arson/incendiarism	92
Misuse of fire by a minor	89
Equipment and vehicle use	23
Natural	16
Smoking	10
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Other causes	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Fireworks	3

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 2008	Natural	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2009	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2017	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2013	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2017	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Aiken County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 41 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 41 workings within 5 miles of Hickman Mill Historic District: 23 past producers, 9 producers, 9 unknowns. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Kaolin, Stone, Dimension. 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
Unidentified Mine	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer	Igneous Intrusive
Barden Mine	Kaolin	Unknown
Graniteville Mine	Kaolin	Producer
Langley Mine	Kaolin	Producer
G.L.Williams Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gene Williams Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Hillside Spring Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
McKie Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
McKie Sand Pit Number 1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown	Sedimentary
McKie Sand Pit Number 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Aiken County

Storms near this property

24 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Graniteville, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 heavy rain. 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
October 2016	Flash Flood	Graniteville	$5,000	South Carolina Highway patrol reported a roadway washout at Breezy Hill Road and Ascauga Lake Road.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Graniteville	$4,000	Sheriff reported powerlines down on Ascauga Lake Road in Graniteville.
March 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Graniteville	$4,000	Sheriff reported trees blocking the roadway near Goodsprings road and Hwy 19.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Graniteville	$3,000	DOT reported trees down along Whaley Pond Road near Gooseberry Court.
May 1995	Hail	Graniteville	$2,000	,,,,,,,,Thunderstorm Winds Trees down in Graniteville.
September 2020	Flash Flood	Graniteville	$500	Flooding observed on Canal St.
July 2018	Hail	Graniteville	$100	CoCoRaHS observer reported pea size hail 1.2 miles NE of Graniteville.
September 2018	Flash Flood	Graniteville	$100	Numerous roads were flooded and closed in Graniteville, including Canal St, Ascauga Lake Rd, and Hwy 421. One person was rescued from a car. Another person was being rescued from a home.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Graniteville	-	Aiken County EM reported numerous trees and powerlines in the Graniteville area of Aiken County. Time estimated by radar.
July 2022	Hail	Graniteville	-	Spotter reported quarter size hail and estimated 60 mph wind gust near Graniteville Saint Hill Fire Dept.
September 2018	Heavy Rain	Graniteville	-	COOP observer, GNTS1, 1.2 miles NE of Graniteville measured a total rainfall amount of 5.98 inches. Most of this rain, 4.58 inches, fell in about a two hour period from about 1930 EST (2030 EDT) until around 2130 EST (2230 EDT).
April 2017	Heavy Rain	Graniteville	-	CoCoRaHS station SC-AK-75 reported 1.69 inches of rain in 60 minutes, along with pea sized hail.
June 2015	Hail	Graniteville	-	Public reported quarter size hail via social media.
May 2008	Hail	Graniteville	-	Public reported half dollar size hail.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Graniteville	-	Emergency Manager reported several trees down in Graniteville.
May 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Graniteville	-	Dept. of Highways reported several trees down.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Graniteville	-	Sheriff reported several trees down in the Graniteville area.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Graniteville	-	Sheriff reported trees down between Graniteville and Vaucluse.
May 2003	Hail	Graniteville	-	SKYWARN spotter reported 1 inch hail.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Graniteville	-	SKYWARN spotter reported measured wind gust of 60 mph.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Graniteville	-	SKYWARN spotter reported trees down on highway 191.
March 1993	Hail	Graniteville	-	Hail measuring 0.75 inch to 1.00 inch in diameter was reported in the Graniteville-North Augusta area.
April 1997	Hail	Graniteville	-	no account filed
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Graniteville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Aiken 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

6 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
Graniteville Historic District	0.4 miles	1978
Warren Mill	0.9 miles	2016
Warrenville Elementary School	1.2 miles	2002
Pickens House	2.8 miles	1983
Chancellor James P. Carroll House	3.0 miles	1977
Vaucluse Mill Village Historic District	3.6 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 16000046 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Aiken County	All 43 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.