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St. James Episcopal Church, Santee

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

From the record

“James Episcopal Church, Santee, is a historic church located in a remote portion of Francis Marion National Forest in Charleston County, South Carolina, United States. The church is named for its proximity to the Santee River, and is actually located 79.8 miles (128.4 km) from Santee, South Carolina.”
Wikipedia article St. James Episcopal Church (Santee, South Carolina), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 227 National Register listings published here for Charleston 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. 17 mi. S of Georgetown on the Santee River, Georgetown, 29458
When was it listed? April 1970
Category. building
Census division. McClellanville
National Register reference number. 70000581 - 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

213 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 213 fires within 5 miles of St. James Episcopal Church, Santee between 1992 and 2019, burning about 7,202 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 71 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	75
Arson/incendiarism	71
Debris and open burning	38
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Smoking	6
Natural	5
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
17 September 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	SKIDDER
3 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 2002	Natural	18 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 2007	Natural	5.4 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 August 2002	Debris and open burning	10 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 July 2011	Smoking	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 July 1993	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	not named

Every fire recorded in Charleston 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
Old Georgetown Road	0.3 miles	2014
Old Georgetown Road	0.4 miles	2014
Old Georgetown Road	0.6 miles	2014
Old Georgetown Road	0.9 miles	2014
Old Georgetown Road	1.0 miles	2014
Old Georgetown Road	1.2 miles	2014

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 70000581 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Charleston County	All 227 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.