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Inman Mills

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.

From the record

“The Inman Mills, now the Lofts at Inman Mills, are a historic textile mill complex at 240 4th Street in Inman, South Carolina. The mill complex includes a large main mill building and a number of smaller buildings, some attached, as well as a smokestack.”

Wikipedia article Inman Mills (Inman, South Carolina), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 64 National Register listings published here for Spartanburg County · listed in 2016 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • Address. 240 4th St., Inman, 29349
  • When was it listed? March 2016
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Textile Mills designed by W.B. Smith Whaley MPS
  • Census division. Inman
  • National Register reference number. 16000090 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

114 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 114 fires within 5 miles of Inman Mills between 1992 and 2018, burning about 397 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined45
Debris and open burning40
Arson/incendiarism10
Smoking7
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Smoking2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2007Smokingunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Spartanburg 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 Inman Mills: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mcbee PlacerGoldPast Producer1844
Merredith Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Inman QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerMetamorphic
Inman QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Spartanburg County

Storms near this property

29 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Inman, the town this property stands in, in 29 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 17 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 3 flood, 1 lightning. 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 1996Thunderstorm WindInman$60,000no account filed
May 2006LightningInman$10,000Lightning ignited a fire that damaged a church.
November 2000Thunderstorm WindInman$5,000Trees were blown down by spotter estimated 60 mph winds. One tree crushed a storage building and its contents.
August 1999Thunderstorm WindInman$5,000no account filed
April 1994Thunderstorm WindInman$5,000no account filed
May 2002Thunderstorm WindInman$3,000Numerous trees and powerlines were blown down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindInman$1,000Several trees were blown down. One fallen tree destroyed a fence.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindInman-Utility company reported trees blown down and causing an outage on Data Bush Dr.
February 2020Thunderstorm WindInman-NWS employee reported multiple trees blown down north of Inman.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindInman-Highway patrol reported trees and power lines blown down near Highway 176 and Petunia Rd.
April 2008HailInman-Reported on Mt Lebanon Church Rd between highways 14 and 357.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindInman-Numerous trees blown down across the northern half of the county.
March 2007FloodInman-Flooding in Spartanburg County included the Pacolet River near the North Carolina border, which flooded Landrum Rd. The Middle Tyger River also flooded Mt Lebanon Church Rd north of Greer. There was also some road flooding due to poor drainage, including Amber Dr and Old Mill Rd in Inman and Eli Cox Rd in Enoree.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindInman-Eight trees down at a residence west of Inman.
October 2002FloodInman-Urban flooding was reported in a poor drainage area at a convenience store on highway 292.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindInman-Several large trees blown down.
July 2001FloodInman-Urban flooding in and around Spartanburg and Inman during slow-moving afternoon thunderstorms.
April 2012HailInman-no account filed
May 2010HailInman-no account filed
December 2006Thunderstorm WindInman-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindInman-no account filed
July 2000HailInman-no account filed
May 1999HailInman-no account filed
May 1999Thunderstorm WindInman-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindInman-no account filed
April 1998HailInman-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindInman-no account filed
May 1996HailInman-no account filed
May 1995HailInman-no account filed

Every storm 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

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Shiloh Methodist Church1.4 miles2005
Bush House2.1 miles2003
McMakin's Tavern5.6 miles1974
Augustus Belton and Margaret Wheeler Groce House6.3 miles2024
New Hope Farm7.2 miles1999
Startex Finishing Company7.9 miles2023

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 16000090 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Spartanburg CountyAll 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.
  • 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.