Christ Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

One of 227 National Register listings published here for Charleston County · listed in 1972 · category: Building.

Sources: 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 as contributing to the listing.
Address. 4.6 mi. NE of Mount Pleasant on U.S. 17, Mount Pleasant, 29466
When was it listed? November 1972
Category. building
Census division. Mount Pleasant
National Register reference number. 72001201 - 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

107 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Christ Church between 1992 and 2015, burning about 859 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 18 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	51
Debris and open burning	31
Arson/incendiarism	18
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
21 August 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
13 August 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
1 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 July 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	45 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 July 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.2 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
10 July 1998	Natural	7.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
1 July 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 June 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Charleston 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 Christ Church: 3 unknowns, 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Clay, Iron, Titanium, Zirconium. 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
Island Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay	Unknown	Sedimentary
Island Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay	Producer
Isle of Palms (Area 1)	Iron, Titanium, Zirconium	Unknown	Placer , Modern , Beach
Isle of Palms (Area 2)	Iron, Titanium, Thorium	Unknown	Placer , Modern , Beach
East Copper #1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
R & L Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Shell Point (Mt. Pleasant Pit)	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Sedimentary
Yaupon Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Charleston 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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Snee Farm-Charles Pinckney National Historic Site	0.6 miles	1973
Cook's Old Field Cemetery	0.7 miles	2003
Boone Hall Plantation House and Historic Landscape (Boundary Increase)	0.8 miles	1994
Slave Street, Smokehouse, and Allee, Boone Hall Plantation	1.0 miles	1983
Phillips Community Historic District	1.3 miles	2023
Phillips Community Historic District	1.8 miles	2023

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 72001201 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Charleston County	All 227 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.