Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
From the record
“Padgett's Creek Baptist Church is a historic Southern Baptist church located at 843 Old Buncombe Rd, Union, South Carolina near Cross Keys, Union County, South Carolina. It was built between 1844 and 1848, and is a plain, rectangular two-story meeting house building over slightly raised brick supports.”
Wikipedia article Padgett's Creek Baptist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 33 National Register listings published here for Union County · listed in 1971 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.71000810- 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
60 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Padgett's Creek Baptist Church
between 1992 and 2018, burning about 305 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 7 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
19
Debris and open burning
16
Natural
8
Arson/incendiarism
7
Recreation and ceremony
4
Equipment and vehicle use
3
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Other causes
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
4 workings within 5 miles of Padgett's Creek Baptist Church: 4 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Feldspar, Gold, Vermiculite. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Cross Keys, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 13 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 lightning, 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.
NWS damage survey found the path of an EF0 tornado that began along Monument Rd, just north of Blackstock Rd, where several large limbs were snapped. The tornado moved quickly north-northeast, uprooting several trees and snapping a number of large limbs along Battlefield Rd and the remainder of Monument Rd. The tornado continued into a heavily wooded area where it dissipated.
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.
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.
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