McBee Methodist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“McBee Methodist Church, also known as McBee Chapel, is an octagonal, brick, United Methodist church building on Main Street in Conestee, Greenville County, South Carolina. Built in 1856, it was designed by millwright John Adams and named for Vardry McBee (1775-1864), the "Father of Greenville," whose son donated the money to build it.”
Wikipedia article McBee Methodist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 97 National Register listings published here for Greenville County · listed in 1972 · category: Building.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Main St., Conestee, 29605
When was it listed? March 1972
Category. building
Census division. Greenville
National Register reference number. 72001212 - 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

103 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of McBee Methodist Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 279 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 14 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	20
Arson/incendiarism	14
Misuse of fire by a minor	11
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Recreation and ceremony	3
Other causes	2
Smoking	1
Natural	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
6 September 2002	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 August 2000	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 August 2010	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 August 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Greenville County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of McBee Methodist Church: 3 prospects, 3 unknowns, 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Iron, Titanium, Thorium, Iron, Thorium, Titanium, Kaolin. 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
Placer Prospect 9-P	Iron, Thorium, Titanium	Unknown	Placer , Modern , Fluvial
Willimon Mine	Mica, Kaolin	Past Producer
Charles Brooks	Iron, Titanium, Thorium	Unknown	Placer , Modern , Fluvial
Gillard Creek	Iron, Titanium, Thorium	Unknown	Placer , Modern , Fluvial
Boling Mine	Mica	Past Producer	Pegmatite
Boling Mine	Mica	Past Producer
R S Berry Prospect	Mica	Prospect
W F Holloway & J J Brown Prospects	Mica	Prospect
Will Cleveland Prospect	Mica	Prospect

Every working recorded in Greenville County

Storms near this property

9 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Conestee, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2013	Flash Flood	Conestee	$500,000	Guilder Creek flooded East Butler Road to a depth of about 3 feet. One car was caught in the flooding and the occupant had to be rescued. A mobile home park on Old Mill Road was flooded and the residents evacuated. Corn Road next to Mauldin High was flooded at the bridge. The bridge was damaged, closing the road for several weeks. At least 8 homes suffered significant flood damage in Mauldin. Ashemore Bridge Road was flooded and impassable about a mile southwest of Mauldin.
June 2013	Flash Flood	Conestee	$25,000	Very heavy rain fell across the Golden Strip of Greenville County, including the communities of Mauldin, Simpsonville and the Five Forks area. Rainfall amounts of 3 to 4 inches were common in this area. Severe urban flooding developed with water entering some businesses and private residences. Several roads were flooded and closed, including Holland Rd which was flooded by Bridge Fork Creek.
June 2025	Hail	Conestee	-	Public reported nickel size hail on Jarrah Place.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Conestee	-	Large tree limbs were blown down in the Belmont community.
March 2012	Hail	Conestee	-	Nickel size hail was reported on Ashmore Bridge Rd.
March 2011	Hail	Conestee	-	Hail up to the size of quarters covered the ground.
March 2011	Hail	Conestee	-	Penny size hail was reported from near Mauldin to Simpsonville.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Conestee	-	Quite a few trees were blown down along Fork Shoals Rd.
July 2009	Hail	Conestee	-	Hail was reported in the Conestee area.

Every storm recorded in Greenville 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
C. Granville Wyche House	3.7 miles	1993
Brushy Creek	3.7 miles	1999
T. Q. Donaldson House	5.1 miles	1980
Lanneau-Norwood House	5.1 miles	1982
Cureton-Huff House	5.2 miles	1983
William and Harriet Wilkins House	5.3 miles	2016

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 72001212 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Greenville County	All 97 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.
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.