BlockFrom the record
One of 227 National Register listings published here for Charleston County · listed in 2016 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Fort Sumter National Monument (Boundary Increase and Additional Documentation)
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.
The listing
- Address. 1214 Middle St. (FOSU), Sullivan's Island
- When was it listed? April 2016
- Category. district
- Census division. Mount Pleasant
- National Register reference number. 16000190 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
11 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Fort Sumter National Monument (Boundary Increase and Additional Documentation) between 1993 and 2012, burning about 74 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 July 2012 | Fireworks | 8.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 11 June 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 31 May 2000 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 April 2004 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 April 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 7.5 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 April 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 10 March 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 1 March 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Fort Sumter National Monument (Boundary Increase and Additional Documentation): 2 producers, 2 unknowns, 2 past producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, REE, Thorium, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Facility) Charleston Smelter | Chromium | Plant | ||
| Airco Alloys | Iron | Unknown | ||
| Charleston County Mine | REE, Thorium | Producer | ||
| Fort Moultrie Quadrangle | Zirconium, Titanium, Iron, Thorium | Unknown | Placer , Modern , Beach | |
| East Copper #1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| R & L Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Shell Point (Mt. Pleasant Pit) | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Sedimentary |
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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Mount Pleasant Historic District | 1.1 miles | 1973 |
 | Fort Sumter National Monument | 1.3 miles | 1966 |
 | Old Courthouse | 1.5 miles | 1971 |
 | Castle Pinckney | 1.6 miles | 1970 |
 | Moultrieville Historic District | 1.6 miles | 2007 |
 | Marshlands Plantation House | 1.7 miles | 1973 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 16000190 in Record Group 79. |
| Charleston County | All 227 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.