Landsford Canal

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.

From the record

“The Landsford Canal is a navigation channel that opened in 1823 with the purpose of bypassing rapids along the Catawba River to allow efficient freight transport and quick travel between nearby communities and settlements across the rural frontiers of the era. It had five locks operating over a stretch of two miles (3.2 km) with an elevation change overall of 32-34 feet (9.8-10.4 m).”
Wikipedia article Landsford Canal, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Chester County · listed in 1969 · category: Structure.

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

The listing

Address. Off US 21, Rowell, 29704
When was it listed? December 1969
Category. structure
Census division. Fort Lawn
Architect. Robert Mills
National Register reference number. 69000163 - 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

128 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Landsford Canal between 1992 and 2020, burning about 303 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 12 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	59
Debris and open burning	29
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Arson/incendiarism	12
Smoking	5
Other causes	3
Natural	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 2013	Other causes	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Chester County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Landsford Canal: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
	John Barnette Mine	Clay	Past Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Chester County

Storms near this property

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rowell, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2012: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Rowell	-	Multiple trees were blown down a little south of the York county line.

Every storm recorded in Chester 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
	Landsford Plantation House	1.7 miles	1987
	Lando School	7.4 miles	2009

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 69000163 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chester County	All 19 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.
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.