A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1758. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
From the record
“Borough House Plantation, also known as Borough House, Hillcrest Plantation and Anderson Place, is a historic plantation on South Carolina Highway 261, 0.8 miles (1.3 km) north of its intersection with U.S. Route 76/US Route 378 in Stateburg, in the High Hills of Santee near Sumter, South Carolina.”
Wikipedia article Borough House Plantation, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 28 National Register listings published here for Sumter County · listed in 1972 · category: Building · built in 1758 · a National Historic Landmark.
National Register reference number.72001224- 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
264 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 264 fires within 5 miles of Borough House Plantation
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,151 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 33 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
Debris and open burning
118
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
74
Arson/incendiarism
33
Misuse of fire by a minor
18
Equipment and vehicle use
9
Smoking
5
Natural
3
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
Other causes
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
5 workings within 5 miles of Borough House Plantation: 2 unknowns, 2 prospects, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Iron, Iron, Zirconium, Thorium, Titanium. 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
Stateburg, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado, 1 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.
A brief, but wide, EF-0 tornado associated with Hurricane Helene |began near Squaw Valley Road north of Wedgefield in Sumter County |at 532 AM. The tornado uprooted multiple trees and snapped large|branches as it moved north across Cane Savannah Rd and eventually|Route 76/378. It continued into a neighborhood causing additional|large tree damage, with a tree falling across Brookland Drive.|One home on Brookland Drive suffered damage from a large|tree falling on it, while other yards had multiple large limbs|snapped and/or trees uprooted. The tornado continued northwest|causing a large tree to uproot and fall across powerlines and|North Kings Highway which caused traffic delays. The tornado|turned slightly more northward where it uprooted trees and|snapped large limbs near the Beech Creek Golf Club before it|lifted around 538 AM.
Sumter Sheriff office reported multiple stalled vehicles over the past hour on Hwy 261 near Raccoon Rd where Beech Creek had flowed out of its banks across the road.
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
4 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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