Cowpens National Battlefield

Built in 1929. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

From the record

“Cowpens National Battlefield is a unit of the National Park Service just east of Chesnee, South Carolina, and near the state line with North Carolina. It preserves a major battlefield of the American Revolutionary War.”
Wikipedia article Cowpens National Battlefield, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Cherokee County · listed in 1966 · category: District · built in 1929.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 2 mi. E of Chesnee at jct. of SC 11 and 110, Chesnee, 29341
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. district
Census division. Macedonia
When was it built? 1929
National Register reference number. 66000072 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

228 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 228 fires within 5 miles of Cowpens National Battlefield between 1992 and 2020, burning about 988 acres in total. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	83
Debris and open burning	63
Arson/incendiarism	25
Misuse of fire by a minor	21
Smoking	15
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Natural	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Other causes	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

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
4 September 2010	Smoking	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	North Carolina Forest Service	PAINTER RD
2 September 2015	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Cowpens National Battlefield: 8 unknowns, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Kyanite, Stone. 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
Ashworth Creek Cassiterite Occurrence	Tin	Unknown	Placer
Cliffside-Elkin Kyn Belt Deposit	Kyanite	Occurrence	Metamorphic
Rutherford County Dredge and P	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unnamed Gneiss Quarry Gl-107	Stone	Unknown	1900
Unnamed Granite Quarry	Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown	Metamorphic
Cowpens Area	Iron	Unknown	Residual
Cowpens Battlefield Bog-Iron Mine	Iron	Unknown	Bog Iron Limonite
Unnamed Hematite Mine Gl-110	Iron	Unknown	1850
Unnamed Hematite Mine Gl-111	Iron	Unknown	1850
Unnamed Hematite Mine Gl-112	Iron	Unknown	1850

Every working recorded in Cherokee 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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Zeno Hicks House	3.0 miles	1989
	Magness-Humphries House	7.5 miles	2001

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000072 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cherokee County	All 14 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.