Brattonsville Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

From the record

“The Brattonsville Historic District is a historic district and unincorporated community in York County, South Carolina. It includes three homes built between 1776 and 1855 by the Brattons, a prominent family of York County.”
Wikipedia article Brattonsville Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 62 National Register listings published here for York County · listed in 1971 · category: District.

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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. E of McConnellsville on CR 165 off SC 13, McConnellsville, 29726
When was it listed? August 1971
Category. district
Census division. McConnells
National Register reference number. 71000812 - 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 Brattonsville Historic District between 1992 and 2017, burning about 249 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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	43
Debris and open burning	21
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	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
23 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	7.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in York 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
Hightower Hall	0.9 miles	1982
Bethesda Presbyterian Church	2.1 miles	1977
Carroll Rosenwald School	2.5 miles	2018

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 71000812 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
York County	All 62 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.