St. Stephen's Episcopal Church

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

From the record

“Stephen's Episcopal Church is a historic church located at 196 Brick Church Circle in St. Built in the 1760s, it is one of a handful of surviving 18th-century brick parish churches in the state, with a number of architectural features not found on any other of the period.”
Wikipedia article St. Stephen's Episcopal Church (St. Stephen, South Carolina), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Berkeley County · listed in 1970 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. On SC 45, St. Stephens, 29479
When was it listed? April 1970
Category. building
Census division. St. Stephen
Architectural style. Georgian architecture
National Register reference number. 70000570 - 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

889 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 889 fires within 5 miles of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,062 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 235 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	338
Debris and open burning	257
Arson/incendiarism	235
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Natural	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	8
Smoking	6
Recreation and ceremony	4
Other causes	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3

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
9 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2000	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	12 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Berkeley County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church: 2 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
St Stephens Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gourdin Fullers Earth Pit	Clay	Unknown	Sedimentary
St. Stephens Brick Co Pit	Clay	Past Producer	1961

Every working recorded in Berkeley 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

1 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
	Pineville Historic District	6.5 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 70000570 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Berkeley County	All 26 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.