Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
From the record
“Little River Baptist Church is a historic Southern Baptist church located near Jenkinsville, Fairfield County, South Carolina. It was built about 1845, and is a one-story, frame meeting house plan church.”
Wikipedia article Little River Baptist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 44 National Register listings published here for Fairfield County · listed in 1972 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.72001208- 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
149 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 149 fires within 5 miles of Little River Baptist Church
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 579 acres in total. 10 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
53
Debris and open burning
34
Equipment and vehicle use
23
Natural
10
Arson/incendiarism
7
Misuse of fire by a minor
5
Power generation/transmission/distribution
5
Smoking
4
Recreation and ceremony
3
Fireworks
2
Other causes
2
Railroad operations and maintenance
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
11 workings within 5 miles of Little River Baptist Church: 9 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Granite, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Jenkinsville, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 14 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 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.
A small F0 intermittently touched down near SC944 in Richland county and continued to Cedar Lake Drive in Fairfield county. Only trees were taken down.
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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