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Elliott House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

From the record

“Elliott House, also known as Chester County Log Cabin, is a historic home located near Richburg, Chester County, South Carolina. It was built about 1770, and is a two-story, late 18th to early 19th century log dwelling.”

Wikipedia article Elliott House (Richburg, South Carolina), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Chester County · listed in 1971 · 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

  • Listing status. The Park Service records this property as Removed.
  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. N of Richburg off SC 901 on CR 136, Richburg, 29729
  • When was it listed? May 1971
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Richburg
  • National Register reference number. 71000764 - 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

171 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 171 fires within 5 miles of Elliott House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 460 acres in total. 7 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/undetermined57
Debris and open burning44
Railroad operations and maintenance33
Equipment and vehicle use10
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Smoking3
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
3 September 2015Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2015Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1998Natural1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1998Natural8.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Chester County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Elliott House: 3 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Decker-Holway Steel--Richburg, ScIronUnknown
Dickerson Pit EastSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
Dickerson Pit EastSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Fishing Creek MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary

Every working recorded in Chester County

Storms near this property

17 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Richburg, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 10 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1996Tornado (F1)Richburg$20,000no account filed
March 2021Thunderstorm WindRichburg$5,000Emergency manager reported a section of roof torn off a mobile home on Old Mill Rd.
April 2025HailRichburg-Public reported a lot of penny size hail.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindRichburg-Public reported several large tree limbs blown down in the Richburg area.
May 2024HailRichburg-Public reported quarter to half dollar size in the Richburg area. A meteorologist (non-NWS) reported half dollar size hail in Fort Lawn.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindRichburg-County comms center reported trees and power lines blown down on Old Mill Rd.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindRichburg-Large tree limbs were blown down in Richburg.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindRichburg-Several trees were blown down near Richburg.
April 2011HailRichburg-no account filed
June 2011HailRichburg-no account filed
April 2010HailRichburg-no account filed
June 2008HailRichburg-no account filed
June 2008HailRichburg-no account filed
May 2003HailRichburg-no account filed
February 1997Thunderstorm WindRichburg-no account filed
January 1997HailRichburg-no account filed
May 1996HailRichburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chester 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Lando School3.4 miles2009
James Phinney House5.4 miles2016
Lewis Inn6.9 miles1971
Landsford Plantation House7.7 miles1987

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 71000764 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chester CountyAll 19 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.