Ninety Six National Historic Site

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1976. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.

From the record

“Ninety Six National Historic Site, also known as Old Ninety Six and Star Fort, is a United States National Historic Site located about 60 miles south of Greenville, South Carolina. The historic site was listed on the National Register in 1969, declared to be a National Historic Landmark in 1973, and established as a National Historic Site in 1976 to preserve the original site of Ninety Six, South Carolina, a small town established in the early 18th century.”
Wikipedia article Ninety Six National Historic Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Greenwood County · listed in 1969 · category: District · built in 1976 · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

Address. 2 mi. S of Ninety Six between SC 248 and 27, Ninety Six, 29666
When was it listed? December 1969
Category. district
Census division. Ninety Six
When was it built? 1976
National Register reference number. 69000169 - 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

125 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Ninety Six National Historic Site between 1992 and 2020, burning about 510 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 5 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	56
Debris and open burning	37
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Natural	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
Smoking	3
Other causes	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
5 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	100 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.3 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Greenwood County

Storms near this property

23 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ninety Six, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 19 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning, 2 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
July 2010	Lightning	Ninety Six	$100,000	no account filed
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Ninety Six	$5,000	EM and newspaper reported multiple trees, limbs, and power lines blown down in the Ninety-Six area, with one tree on a garage on Lowell St.
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Ninety Six	$5,000	A tree was blown onto a vehicle.
June 2000	Lightning	Ninety Six	$4,000	no account filed
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Ninety Six	$2,000	Public reported a large tree limb fell on a house.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Ninety Six	-	Utility company reported trees blown down on power lines in the Ninety Six area.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Ninety Six	-	NWS storm survey found a swath of downburst damage on the grounds of the Ninety Six National Historic Park. Numerous trees were blown down from north-to-south across the park, with the most significant damage observed near the southern boundary. Emergency manager reported some damage that extended to areas just south of the park.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Ninety Six	-	County comms reported trees blown down along Highway 702.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Ninety Six	-	County comms reported multiple power lines blown down in Ninety Six, including on Cambridge St. Two trees were also blown down on Pheasant Road near the Saluda County line.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Ninety Six	-	Media reported trees blown down in the Ninety Six area.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Ninety Six	-	PD reported multiple trees blown down from near Ninety Six to the Laurens County line.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Ninety Six	-	County comms reported several large tree limbs blown down across Ninety Six National Historic Site.
March 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Ninety Six	-	Trees were blown down around the Ninety Six community, including along Louden Rd about 3 miles southwest of town, Gervais St in town and Watts Bridge Rd 2.5 miles north of town.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Ninety Six	-	Large tree limbs were blown down at Ninety Six National Historic Site.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Ninety Six	-	Several trees were blown down between Greenwood and Ninety Six.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Ninety Six	-	Trees were blown down around the Ninety-Six area.
March 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Ninety Six	-	A couple of trees were blown down in Ninety Six.
November 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Ninety Six	-	Power lines blown down in a subdivision near highway 34.
March 2012	Hail	Ninety Six	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Ninety Six	-	no account filed
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Ninety Six	-	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Ninety Six	-	no account filed
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Ninety Six	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greenwood 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

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
Southern Railway Depot	1.5 miles	2011
Kinard House	1.5 miles	2007
Edgewood School	1.7 miles	2024
Moore-Kinard House	4.9 miles	1983
J. Wesley Brooks House	6.6 miles	1973
Barratt House	7.1 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 69000169 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Greenwood County	All 22 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.