Poinsett Bridge

Built in 1820. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

From the record

“Poinsett Bridge is the oldest bridge in South Carolina and perhaps in the entire southeastern United States. Named for Joel Roberts Poinsett, it was built in 1820 as part of the Old Buncombe Road from Columbia, South Carolina, to Saluda Mountain.”
Wikipedia article Poinsett Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 97 National Register listings published here for Greenville County · listed in 1970 · category: Structure · built in 1820.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. About 4 mi. N of Tigerville on CR 42, Tigerville, 29690
When was it listed? October 1970
Category. structure
Census division. Tigerville
When was it built? 1820
National Register reference number. 70000590 - 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

84 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Poinsett Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 578 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 8 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	36
Debris and open burning	21
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Arson/incendiarism	8
Other causes	4
Natural	3
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
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
6 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 2007	Natural	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 June 2000	Natural	65 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
10 June 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Greenville 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 Poinsett Bridge: 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Zirconium, Vermiculite. 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
Tiger	Vermiculite	Unknown	Metamorphosed Igneous Intrusion
Tigerville Prospect	Zirconium	Occurrence
Wild Cat Mine	Gold	Unknown	Vein

Every working recorded in Greenville County

Storms near this property

47 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tigerville, the town this property stands in, in 47 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 25 hail, 19 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Tigerville	$500,000	A microburst caused major roof damage to a building on the campus of North Greenville College. The portion of roof that was removed was thrown on to the roof of another building, causing additional damage.
July 1994	Hail	Tigerville	$500,000	no account filed
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Tigerville	$500,000	no account filed
March 1994	Tornado (F0)	Tigerville	$5,000	A brief tornado developed from a severe thunderstorm near the North Greenville College area. The storm removed the roof of a substantial garage, tossed a boat around, downed a large oak tree, and otherwise caused minor damage.
May 2003	Hail	Tigerville	$1,000	Hail broke out skylights at a residence.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Tigerville	-	Multiple sources reported a number of trees and large limbs and power lines blown down across Greenville County, from Tigerville, south through Travelers Rest and much of the Greenville metro area, to Simpsonville and Fountain Inn. Hundreds of power outages were reported, especially in the Greenville area.
January 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Tigerville	-	Ham radio operator reported trees and power lines blown down at Camp Creek Road and Camp Creek Road Ext.
June 2022	Hail	Tigerville	-	Public reported up to golf ball size hail in the Tigerville community.
May 2020	Hail	Tigerville	-	Public reported penny size hail along Mountain View Road.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Tigerville	-	Highway Patrol reported trees blown down at the intersection of Highway 414 and N Tigerville Rd.
March 2017	Hail	Tigerville	-	Numerous sources reported that the first in a series of severe thunderstorms produced up to golf ball size hail from Tigerville, through Taylors and the Eastside.
March 2017	Hail	Tigerville	-	Public reported ping pong ball size hail at North Greenville College.
September 2014	Hail	Tigerville	-	County comms and public reported dime to quarter sized hail along North Tigerville Rd.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Tigerville	-	Spotter reported large tree limbs blown down off North Tigerville Rd.
September 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Tigerville	-	NWS employee estimated at least 60 mph winds near Tigerville. County comms reported multiple trees and power lines blown down on Bailey Mill Rd and another tree down on Chinquapin rd in the same area.
May 2011	Hail	Tigerville	-	Hail up to golf ball size fell in a swath from Tigerville to the Taylors area.
September 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Tigerville	-	Two trees were blown down a little to the northeast of the town of Tigerville.
September 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Tigerville	-	Four to five inch diameter tree limbs were blown down between Tigerville and highway 11.
June 2006	Hail	Tigerville	-	Quarter size hail near the state line north of Tigerville.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Tigerville	-	Trees down near the intersection of Oak Grove Rd and Hogback Mountain Rd.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Tigerville	-	North Greenville College DPS reported several large limbs and a few trees blown down around campus.
July 2003	Flash Flood	Tigerville	-	Very heavy rainfall caused a pond to overflow and wash away a driveway, as well as several trees. At least one creek flooded in the area as well.
May 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Tigerville	-	Storm survey found area of downed trees 2 miles west of the highway 11/14 interchange.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Tigerville	-	Spotter reported two trees down.
June 2011	Hail	Tigerville	-	no account filed
May 2010	Hail	Tigerville	-	no account filed
March 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Tigerville	-	no account filed
March 2008	Hail	Tigerville	-	no account filed
August 2008	Hail	Tigerville	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Tigerville	-	no account filed
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Tigerville	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Tigerville	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Tigerville	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Tigerville	-	no account filed
March 2003	Flash Flood	Tigerville	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Tigerville	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Tigerville	-	no account filed
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Tigerville	-	no account filed
April 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Tigerville	-	no account filed
August 1999	Hail	Tigerville	-	no account filed
August 1999	Hail	Tigerville	-	no account filed
April 1998	Hail	Tigerville	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Tigerville	-	no account filed
February 1998	Hail	Tigerville	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Tigerville	-	no account filed
June 1997	Hail	Tigerville	-	no account filed
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Tigerville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greenville 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

3 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
John H. Goodwin House	4.7 miles	1983
Campbell's Covered Bridge	7.5 miles	2009
George Salmon House	7.7 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 70000590 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Greenville County	All 97 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.