Rockville Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“Rockville Historic District is a national historic district located at Rockville, Charleston County, South Carolina. The district encompasses 19 contributing buildings in the town of Rockville.”
Wikipedia article Rockville Historic District (Rockville, South Carolina), CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. Town of Rockville on N bank of Bohicket Creek, Rockville and, 29487
When was it listed? June 1972
Category. district
Census division. Wadmalaw Island
National Register reference number. 72001202 - 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

62 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Rockville Historic District between 1992 and 2019, burning about 332 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 16 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	22
Debris and open burning	20
Arson/incendiarism	16
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 July 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 July 2012	Arson/incendiarism	3.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 July 2007	Natural	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 June 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	60 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 June 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 May 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Charleston County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Rockville Historic District: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Zirconium, Iron, Iron, Thorium, Zirconium, Titanium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Edisto Island Quadrangle	Titanium, Zirconium, Iron	Unknown	Placer , Modern , Beach
	Wadmalaw	Iron, Thorium, Zirconium, Titanium	Unknown	Placer , Modern , Beach

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
John Seabrook Plantation Bridge	2.1 miles	1974
Oak Island	3.3 miles	1986
Cassina Point	3.3 miles	1986
Hebron Presbyterian Church	3.5 miles	2025
Bleak Hall Plantation Outbuildings	4.0 miles	1973
Old House Plantation	4.0 miles	1971

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 72001202 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.