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One of 28 National Register listings published here for Sumter County · listed in 2016 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Poinsett State Park Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.
The listing
- Address. 6660 Poinsett Park Rd., Wedgefield, 29168
- When was it listed? May 2016
- Category. district
- Also known as. South Carolina State Parks MPS
- Census division. Sumter Southwest
- National Register reference number. 16000311 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
112 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Poinsett State Park Historic District between 1992 and 2018, burning about 4,405 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 25 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 | 42 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 32 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 25 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 8.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 16 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 August 2006 | Natural | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 August 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 August 1999 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Storms near this property
20 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wedgefield, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 14 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wedgefield | $50,000 | Sheriff reported two mobile homes had moderate damage, a tree was on a house, and a porch was blown off another house. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wedgefield | $18,000 | Sheriff dispatch reported trees down at Highway 378 and Highway 261 and also along Highway 261 to Wedgefield. The Sumter Newspaper also reported around 80 trees snapped off on San Souci Farms near Statesburg. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wedgefield | $8,000 | Sheriff reported trees down on SC Hwy 261 and Wedgefield Roads. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wedgefield | $4,000 | Poinsette State Park reported several trees down in the park. |
| March 2023 | Hail | Wedgefield | - | Social media report of approximately dime size hail near Wedgefield. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wedgefield | - | Manchester State Forest Ranger reported two trees down between Highway 261 and Headquarters Road. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wedgefield | - | Manchester State Forest personnel reported a tree down on a power line on Evanwood Lane. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wedgefield | - | SCHP reported trees down on Burnt Gin Rd at SC Hwy 261. Time estimated. |
| April 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wedgefield | - | An NWS Storm Survey Team found that thunderstorm downburst winds knocked down several trees along a path that extended from Middleton Rd, NE to the town of Wedgefield, and NE to near McLaurin Rd. Time estimated. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wedgefield | - | SCHP reported trees down on SC 261 and Belles Mill Rd. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Wedgefield | - | Public reported nickel to quarter size hail that partially covered the ground on Tiverton Church Road. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Wedgefield | - | The public reported nickel size hail in Wedgefield. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wedgefield | - | Spotter reported large limbs down at Hwy. 441 and Hwy. 378 and also 1 to 2 miles south of the same intersection. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Wedgefield | - | Public reported penny size hail on hwy 261. |
| August 2008 | Hail | Wedgefield | - | Park Service reported nickel size hail. |
| November 2008 | Hail | Wedgefield | - | Postal employee reported reported penny size hail just outside of Wedgefield on her way to work. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wedgefield | - | Sheriff reported trees and powerlines down in Wedgefield. |
| May 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wedgefield | - | EM reported trees down between Wedgefield and Pinewood. |
| March 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wedgefield | - | Electric company reported trees and powerlines down. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wedgefield | - | Sheriff reported trees down in Wedgefield. |
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
4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Singleton's Graveyard | 2.0 miles | 1976 | |
 | Millford Plantation | 4.0 miles | 1971 |
| St. Mark's Church | 4.3 miles | 1978 | |
 | Pinewood Depot | 6.3 miles | 1997 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 16000311 in Record Group 79. |
| Sumter County | All 28 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.
- 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.