Camp Hill

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

From the record

“Camp Hill, near Spartanburg, South Carolina, is the site of a plantation house built by Dr. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.”
Wikipedia article Camp Hill, Glenn Springs, South Carolina, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 64 National Register listings published here for Spartanburg County · listed in 1970 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. S of Glenn Springs on SC 215, Glenn Springs, 29374
When was it listed? July 1970
Category. building
Census division. Pauline
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 70000600 - 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

76 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Camp Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 301 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 11 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	40
Debris and open burning	15
Arson/incendiarism	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Other causes	1
Smoking	1
Natural	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
16 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	8.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2002	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	80 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Spartanburg County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Camp Hill: 5 past producers, 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper. 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
Mud Mine	Gold, Copper	Past Producer
Mud Mine	Gold	Unknown	Vein
Nott Mine	Gold	Past Producer
Nott Mine	Gold	Unknown	Vein
Ophir Mine	Gold	Past Producer
Ophir Mine	Gold	Past Producer
West Mine	Gold	Past Producer
West Mine/Bogan Ophir	Gold	Unknown	Vein

Every working recorded in Spartanburg County

Storms near this property

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glenn Springs, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
October 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Glenn Springs	$2,000	A small tornado spun up as a thunderstorm moved across ridges in hilly terrain in southern Spartanburg County. The small tornado was viewed by several people and was accompanied by marble-size hail. Witnesses stated there was one flash of lightning and one roll of thunder as the storm moved across. The roofs of a home and barn were damaged and an outbuilding was destroyed. Power was out in the area for a few hours. A similar storm produced some minor wind damage in the Glenn Springs/Pauline area.

Every storm recorded in Spartanburg 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

4 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
William Dixon Fowler House	2.1 miles	2012
Glenn Springs Historic District	2.2 miles	1982
Williams Place	4.2 miles	1982
Golightly-Dean House	7.0 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 70000600 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Spartanburg County	All 64 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.