Pinckneyville

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.

From the record

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Union County · listed in 1969 · category: Site.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 13 mi. NE of Union on SC 13, Union, 29031
When was it listed? December 1969
Category. site
Census division. Carlisle
National Register reference number. 69000175 - 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

71 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Pinckneyville between 1992 and 2018, burning about 547 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 4 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	20
Debris and open burning	9
Natural	8
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Recreation and ceremony	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Smoking	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Other causes	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 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1997	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 1998	Natural	9.0 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	PITTMAN POND
19 August 2007	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 July 1998	Smoking	10 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	MCCONNELL

Every fire recorded in Union County

Storms near this property

60 of 99 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Union, the town this property stands in, in 99 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 63 thunderstorm wind, 28 hail, 4 lightning, 2 tornado. The reports record 1 death and 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
September 2013	Lightning	Union	1 killed	A 50 year old man was struck by lightning, while working on his truck, under a tree, in the yard. The incident took place Sunday September 1, 2013. The man died Thursday September 5, 2013.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Union	1 hurt, $14,000	no account filed
May 2014	Hail	Union	$250,000	Spotters reported up to golf ball size hail that broke car windshields in the Union area.
May 2014	Hail	Union	$250,000	County comms reported that the second severe thunderstorm produced larger than baseball size hail on the west side of the city. Multiple car windshields were reportedly broken out and skylights were broken at a department store.
September 2004	Flash Flood	Union	$250,000	no account filed
September 2004	Tornado (F1)	Union	$50,000	This tornado touched down east of the city of Union, then tracked north/northwest, blowing down and uprooting numerous trees, and rolling one mobile home. Other structural damage was limited to shingles and gutters.
May 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Union	$50,000	Two severe thunderstorms developed and caused quite a bit of damage. A downburst was identified in the area from Fairview to south of Fountain Inn. The damage path was initially about 20 yards wide but spread to about 2 miles wide just before diminishing to a wind speed below severe criteria (where no more damage was found). A number of eye witnesses reported a small but distinct funnel embedded in the area of the downburst. The tornado seemed to be in the center to northern part of the damaged area. The small tornado mostly snapped off some trees. Most of the damage resulted from the downbursts. A porch was torn off a house at Fairview along with some downed trees. In the area between Fountain Inn and Owings some billboards were blown down, vinyl siding was blown off a house, a number of trees were downed (some fell on structures and mobile homes), and a few sheds and outbuildings were damaged or destroyed. Power was off in the area for a few hours. The hailstorm associated with the storm was impressive in amount but only reached marble-size and therefore caused little if any property damage. At Union, trees were downed at several locations in the city, a roof was blown off an outbuilding, and parts of the leachers at the county football stadium were destroyed.
June 2009	Lightning	Union	$45,000	Lightning ignited a fire at a home on Catherine St, causing significant damage.
April 1998	Lightning	Union	$20,000	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Union	$20,000	no account filed
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Union	$20,000	no account filed
November 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Union	$15,000	Numerous trees were blown down. One fell on a house.
July 1997	Lightning	Union	$10,000	no account filed
October 2015	Heavy Rain	Union	$5,000	Newspaper reported a combination of saturated soil and winds gusting in excess of 20 mph caused a tree to fall on a parked vehicle on Gault Ave.
April 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Union	$3,000	Tree fell on a car and a portable, elctronic sign was blown across a parking lot. Also, marble hail covered the ground.
September 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Union	$1,000	Emergency manager reported a metal awning was blown off the roof of Union County High School. Some large tree limbs were also blown down in the area.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Union	$1,000	Trees and powerlines were blown down along West Springs Highway.
May 2025	Hail	Union	-	NWS employee reported 3/4 inch hail.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Union	-	County comms reported several trees and power lines blown down along Lakeside Dr.
December 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Union	-	County comms reported a few trees and power lines blown down across roads, mainly to east And northeast of the city of Union.
March 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Union	-	County comms reported several trees blow down around the city of Union.
May 2022	Hail	Union	-	County comms reported 3/4 inch hail in the city of Union.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Union	-	County comms reported trees and power lines blown down on Rice Ave.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Union	-	County comms reported multiple trees blown down across the eastern part of Union County.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Union	-	County comms reported multiple trees and power lines blown down in the city of Union. Two of the trees fell on residences.
June 2018	Hail	Union	-	County comms reported up to 3/4 inch diameter hail.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Union	-	County comms reported numerous trees blown down along with at least one power pole snapped along Peach Orchard Road and Webber Lake Road.
April 2015	Hail	Union	-	Multiple public reports of quarter size hail were received from the Union area.
April 2015	Hail	Union	-	Public reported a second severe thunderstorm produced another round of large hail in the Union area.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Union	-	A tree was blown down on Sims Ave on the east side of town, and another on Beltline Rd about 4 miles east of town.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Union	-	A tree was blown down on Lakeside Dr.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Union	-	Numerous trees were blown down in the city of Union, with trees on homes on E Main St and Douglass Heights. Several other trees blocked roads.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Union	-	Power lines and power poles were blown down on N Church St with trees blown down on Park Dr.
March 2010	Hail	Union	-	Hail, up to the size of quarters, covered the ground at the Jonesville Fire Department.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Union	-	Several trees were blown down throughout the city.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Union	-	Trees were blown down from Thompson Bvd down to highway 176 south near Whitmire.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Union	-	A few trees were blown down on Happy Valley Rd.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Union	-	Trees were blown down on Meansville Rd.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Union	-	Several trees were blown down in the West Springs community.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Union	-	Several trees blown down.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Union	-	Trees and a power line blown down on Old Buncombe Rd.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Union	-	Numerous trees blown down along highway 176 south of Union.
April 2007	Hail	Union	-	One inch diameter hail measured in the Santuck community.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Union	-	A tree down on Whitmire Highway, and another down on Brookside Dr.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Union	-	Trees blown down on Kelly Rd and the corner of Industrial Park and highway 49. Power lines down on a house on Old Buffalo Rd, and other power lines down on Browns Creek Rd and Peach Orchard Rd.
September 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Union	-	Three to four inch diameter tree limbs down.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Union	-	A tree and numerous limbs down along highway 49 about a mile from the Spartanburg line.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Union	-	Quite a few trees down in locations in and around Union.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Union	-	A few trees were blown down on Sonoco Rd. In addition, scattered tree damage occurred at various locations throughout the county.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Union	-	Numerous trees were blown down.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Union	-	A couple of trees were blown down.
February 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Union	-	Two trees were blown down.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Union	-	Some trees were blown down.
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Union	-	Several trees were blown down.
December 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Union	-	2 trees were blown down along Hwy 49 near Tyger River. Another tree was blocking US 276.
December 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Union	-	2 trees were blow down.
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Union	-	Emergency management reported trees down. There were scattered power outages. The newspaper reported that the storms hit at separate times, with a short interval.
May 2001	Hail	Union	-	Just north of the border with Newberry County, general public reported hail hitting windows so hard they thought the windows would break.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Union	-	Trees and power lines blown down. Hail the size of quarters was also observed. Two of the downed trees fell on homes.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Union	-	Outflow from a severe thunderstorm, centered just across the border in northeast Laurens County near Whitmire, caused some telephone poles to be snapped. Also, railroad-crossing arms were bent, and damage was reported at a lumber yard.

Every storm recorded in Union County

Newspapers printed here

15,689 digitised pages

3 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 3,036 issues, 15,689 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
The Union Daily Times	1918 to Current
The Union Times	1894 to 1918
The Union Times	1917 to 1918

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
	Hillside	6.1 miles	1978
	Woodland Plantation	7.7 miles	2001

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 69000175 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Union County	All 33 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.