Built in 1931 (National Park Service rustic). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.
From the record
“Kings Mountain National Military Park is a National Military Park near Blacksburg, South Carolina, along the North Carolina/South Carolina border. The park commemorates the Battle of Kings Mountain, a pivotal and significant victory by American Patriots over American Loyalists during the Southern Campaign of the Revolutionary War.”
Wikipedia article Kings Mountain National Military Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 62 National Register listings published here for York County · listed in 1966 · category: District · built in 1931, National Park Service rustic.
National Register reference number.66000079- 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
212 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 212 fires within 5 miles of Kings Mountain National Military Park
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 530 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 15 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
69
Debris and open burning
48
Equipment and vehicle use
30
Misuse of fire by a minor
21
Arson/incendiarism
15
Smoking
10
Power generation/transmission/distribution
6
Other causes
4
Natural
4
Fireworks
4
Recreation and ceremony
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
135 workings within 5 miles of Kings Mountain National Military Park: 56 unknowns, 39 past producers, 21 occurrences, 10 producers.
10 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Clay, Manganese, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Bethany, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 13 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood.
The reports record 4 injuries. 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.
NWS damage survey found the path of en EF0 tornado that began along Highway 161 just south of the intersection with Highway 55 where several trees were uprooted. The tornado moved northeast, crossing Wilmoth Rd, Beamguard Rd and Highway 55 where additional trees were uprooted and large limbs snapped. The tornado dissipated shortly after crossing Knox Rd.
A short tornado track was found, embedded within downburst wind damage, in the Knox Rd area of York County. Multiple trees fell in a concentrated area, with one tree on a recreational vehicle. A home also incurred some minor damage.
Widespread tree damage extended from the North Carolina border west of Clover, across Clover, to Lake Wylie, to Rock Hill and Fort Mill. Numerous trees fell on vehicles, homes and other structures and blocked roads. Although structural damage was mainly limited to falling trees, some direct damage occurred, especially in the Clover area, where the roof was blown off a church. Awnings were also blown off some businesses in the Lake Wylie and Rock Hill areas. Some areas were without power for two days or more.
Numerous trees were blown down in the area around Kings Mountain National Park.|A tree was also blown down on highway 55 near the Ce Stewart Rd intersection.
Oak Park Rd was flooded by Tools Fork Creek and Reese Roach Rd was also flooded at McConnells Highway in the same area. Old Limestone Rd was closed at Southbend Rd and Portions of highway 72 were covered with water from Stoney Fork Creek.
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.
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.
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