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1313 Congress St, Beaufort Historic District

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.

From the record

“Beaufort Historic District is a historic district in Beaufort, South Carolina. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969, and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1973.”
Wikipedia article Beaufort Historic District (Beaufort, South Carolina), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 62 National Register listings published here for Beaufort County · listed in 1969 · category: Building · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 467 buildingss, 5 sitess, 1 structure, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. Bounded by the Beaufort River, Bladen, Hamar, and Boundary Sts., Beaufort, 29902
When was it listed? December 1969
Category. building
Census division. Beaufort-Port Royal
National Register reference number. 69000159 - 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

115 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of 1313 Congress St, Beaufort Historic District between 1992 and 2019, burning about 408 acres in total. None started naturally. 27 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	44
Arson/incendiarism	27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Misuse of fire by a minor	15
Recreation and ceremony	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
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
6 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 August 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 2001	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
14 August 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 July 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Beaufort County

Storms near this property

60 of 110 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beaufort, the town this property stands in, in 110 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 74 thunderstorm wind, 19 hail, 8 lightning, 6 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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
August 1999	Lightning	Beaufort	1 hurt	Lightning injured a man on Lady's Island.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaufort	$100,000	The Beaufort County 911 Dispatch center reported numerous trees and power lines down across the county. Two trees were reported down on vehicles and three trees were reported down on homes. Two boats also sank in the Broad River when strong thunderstorm winds caused them to capsize.
September 1996	Lightning	Beaufort	$35,000	no account filed
May 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaufort	$25,000	A house was damaged on Harbour Island and several trees down.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaufort	$20,000	A large tree was reported down on a car at a car dealership off Highway 21 in Beaufort, South Carolina. The top of the car was crushed.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaufort	$10,000	A large tree was reported down on an unoccupied home near the intersection of Lafayette Street and Spectable Street in Beaufort, South Carolina.
August 1999	Lightning	Beaufort	$10,000	Lightning strike resulted in a fire on Lady's Island.
March 2008	Lightning	Beaufort	$5,000	Law Enforcement reported a house on fire due to a lightning strike.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaufort	$5,000	Trees and powerlines down on Goothey Road.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaufort	$5,000	Trees down.
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaufort	$3,000	Law Enforcement reported 6 trees down in Beaufort, South Carolina. Trees were reported down at the intersections of the following roads, Cloverdale and Kings Neck, Morrall and Murray, Big Estate and River, Old Sheldon Church and Trask Parkway. Trees were also reported down at the following residences 4349 Joe Frazier Road and 536 Joe Frazier Road.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaufort	$2,000	Tree down on a house on Laudonniere Street.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaufort	$2,000	A dispatch center reported trees down on Colony Gardens Road.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaufort	$2,000	The police reported at least one tree down at the intersection of 4th and Centerview Drive.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaufort	$2,000	2 large trees down on Coffin Point Road.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaufort	$1,750	The Beaufort County 911 Call Center reported a tree limb brought down a power line at the 500 block of Battery Creek Road.
September 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaufort	$1,500	Beaufort County Sheriff's Office reported three trees down in the area. One tree was down on a house at 411 Meritta Avenue. Another tree was down at the end of 16th Street in Port Royal. Finally, another tree was down and blocking one lane of traffic on Talbird Road near the intersection with Waddell Road.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaufort	$1,500	The public reported power lines down and on fire along Highway 21 in the Pristine area.
October 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaufort	$1,500	The public reported that 1 tree was down on a house near the intersection of Morris Street and Sycamore Street in Beaufort, South Carolina.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaufort	$1,250	The Beaufort County 911 Call Center reported power lines down on Sams Point Road.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaufort	$1,000	The Beaufort County 911 Call Center reported a tree down on Hogarth Street.
August 2019	Lightning	Beaufort	$1,000	An emergency manager reported a tree down along Pickpocket Plantation Drive due to lightning.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaufort	$1,000	One Palmetto tree was reported down. Very strong wind that lasted 2 to 3 minutes.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaufort	$1,000	A county official reported a tree down and blocking Adventure Street.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaufort	$1,000	A tree was reported down on a power line in Beaufort, South Carolina.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaufort	$1,000	Tree down on MLK Boulevard and Highway 21 on St. Helena Island.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaufort	$1,000	Large tree down along Highway 21 at the Chowan Creek Bridge.
August 1999	Lightning	Beaufort	$1,000	Lightning strike resulted in a residence fire.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaufort	$500	A spotter reported several large tree limbs down near the intersection of Carteret Street and Craven Street.
December 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaufort	$500	A Beaufort County emergency manager reported construction scaffolding blown down onto Highway 21 northbound, closing the road for 50 minutes.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaufort	$500	Beaufort County warning point reported a tree down on Oyster Cove Road.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaufort	$500	The public reported 6 inch diameter tree branches blown down.
September 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaufort	$500	Beaufort County 911 Center reported 1 tree down on Waight Street in Beaufort.
March 2011	Hail	Beaufort	$500	The Public reported half dollar size hail broke a car window on Shell Point Road in Beaufort, South Carolina.
December 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaufort	$500	Law enforcement reported a tree down on Middle Road in Beaufort, South Carolina.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaufort	$250	The public reported glass was blown out of a McDonald's sign on Highway 21 in Beaufort, South Carolina.
October 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaufort	$50	The public reported a large branch down on the roadway near the intersection of Ribaut Road and Hermitage Road in Beaufort, South Carolina.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaufort	-	Beaufort County Emergency Management reported a tree down at the halfway point of Sea Gull Drive.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaufort	-	Beaufort County Emergency Management reported a tree down near the intersection of Brickyard Point Road and Marsh Drive.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaufort	-	Beaufort County Emergency Management reported a tree down in the 1800 block of Oconnell Street.
August 2025	Flash Flood	Beaufort	-	The Beaufort County Sheriff Office reported a vehicle stalled in floodwaters near the intersection of Charles Street and Craven Street.
August 2025	Flash Flood	Beaufort	-	The Beaufort County Sheriff Office reported a vehicle stalled in floodwaters in the 2100 Block Boundary Street.
May 2024	Hail	Beaufort	-	Beaufort County Emergency Management reported nickel sized hail on Lady's Island.
April 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaufort	-	A Beaufort County emergency manager reported a tree down near the intersection of Duke Street and Marsh Road.
April 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaufort	-	A Beaufort County emergency manager reported a tree down along North Hermitage Road.
April 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaufort	-	A Beaufort County emergency manager reported a tree down along Boundary Street.
April 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaufort	-	A Beaufort County emergency manager reported a tree down along Sycamore Street.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaufort	-	The Beaufort County Dispatch reported a tree down on Ribaut road near the intersection with North Street.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaufort	-	The Beaufort County Dispatch reported a tree down near the intersection of Marsh Road and Duke Street.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaufort	-	A Beaufort County emergency manager reported a tree down and blocking both lanes of Wilmington Street near the intersection with Prince Street.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaufort	-	The Beaufort County 911 Call Center reported a tree fell onto a power line along Center Drive West.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaufort	-	Law enforcement reported a tree down and blocking Ribaut Road between Hermitage Road and Depot Road.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaufort	-	A trained spotter reported a seven inch diameter tree uprooted, roof shingles blown off a home, three wooden storm shutters torn from anchors and several large tree limbs down near the intersection of Carteret Street and Craven Street.
April 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaufort	-	A Beaufort County emergency manager reported a tree down near the intersection of Ribaut Road and Allison Road.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaufort	-	Law enforcement reported trees down throughout the city of Beaufort. Several trees were down on houses along Tekoa Lane and on cars on Center Drive East, Ribaut Road, Boundary Street and North Hermitage.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaufort	-	Beaufort County Emergency Management reported a tree blown down at the intersection of Baggett Street and Union Street.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaufort	-	Beaufort County dispatch reported that there were numerous trees down in and around Beaufort.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaufort	-	Beaufort County dispatch reported a tree down on Lafayette Street.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaufort	-	Beaufort County dispatch reported a tree down near the intersection of Bay Street and Ribaut Road.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaufort	-	Beaufort County emergency manager reported a tree down on a vehicle on Ladys Island Drive.

Every storm recorded in Beaufort County

Newspapers printed here

1,593 digitised pages

7 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 399 issues, 1,593 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

Newspaper	Published
Port Royal Standard and Commercial	1874 to 1876
Beaufort Republican	1871 to 1873
The Free South	1863 to 1864
The Tribune	1874 to 1876
The Beaufort Republican and Sea Island Chronicle	1869 to 1871
The Beaufort Tribune and Port Royal Commercial	1877 to 1879
The Crescent	1879 to 1881

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Barnwell-Gough House	0.3 miles	1972
William Barnwell House	0.4 miles	1971
Tabby Manse	0.4 miles	1971
Means-Gage House	0.4 miles	2020
John A. Cuthbert House	0.4 miles	1972
Anchorage, The	0.5 miles	1971

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 69000159 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Beaufort County	All 62 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.