Price's Mill

Built in 1890. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“Price's Mill, also known as Calliham's (Callaham's) Mill, Stone's Mill, and Park's Mill, is a water-powered gristmill about 2 mi (3 km) east of the town of Parksville on South Carolina Highway 33-138 at Stevens Creek in McCormick County. Its name in the USGS Geographic Names Information System is Prices Mill.”
Wikipedia article Price's Mill, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for McCormick County · listed in 1972 · category: Building · built in 1890.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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 2 structuress, 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. E of Parksville on SC 138 at Steven's Creek, Parksville, 29845
When was it listed? November 1972
Category. building
Census division. Parksville
When was it built? 1890
National Register reference number. 72001465 - 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

94 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Price's Mill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 374 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 6 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	44
Debris and open burning	18
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Arson/incendiarism	6
Natural	5
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	3

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
8 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2017	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	not named
1 September 2010	Debris and open burning	20 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2007	Natural	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in McCormick County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Price's Mill: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone. 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
	Plum Branch Quarry	Stone	Unknown	Metamorphic

Every working recorded in McCormick County

Storms near this property

16 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Parksville, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 2001 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 5 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2013	Flash Flood	Parksville	$8,000	DOT reported heavy rains washed out a couple of roads in the Parksville over the the lake. Low lying areas also had up to 2 feet of standing water.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Parksville	$8,000	Corp of Engineers reported trees down on a home on the south shore of Clarks Hill Lake.
April 2019	Hail	Parksville	$100	Pea size hail reported between Plum Branch and Parksville.
April 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Parksville	-	A tree was downed on Hwy 28 S at Wiggleton Rd, just NW of Parksville. Time estimated.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Parksville	-	A line of severe thunderstorms produced widespread wind damage across McCormick\|County, SC on the evening of July 20, 2023. Hamilton Branch State Park, along the\|shore of Lake J. Strom Thurmond, was particularly hard hit, likely due to enhancement\|of winds over the lake. \|\|South Carolina State Parks estimated that approximately 18 trees were snapped or\|uprooted and blocking roadways in the park, with numerous other trees downed in\|wooded areas. No injuries. \|\|A National Weather Service storm survey determined that the damage was the result of thunderstorm winds, and not a tornado. Peak wind speeds were estimated to be around 75 mph.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Parksville	-	Tree fell across Prices Mill Rd, blocking the roadway.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Parksville	-	Trees and power lines were downed near and to the south of Parksville. Time estimated.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Parksville	-	Trees downed in the Parksville area.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Parksville	-	Ham radio operator reported trees down on Plum Branch Rd and Hwy 230.
May 2017	Hail	Parksville	-	Ham radio operator reported nickel size hail along Plum Branch Rd near Beaverdam range.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Parksville	-	Sheriff dispatch reported trees and power lines down along U.S. Hwy. 221/State Hwy. 28 near Parksville.
March 2008	Hail	Parksville	-	Emergency Manager reported nickel size hail in Parksville.
June 2007	Hail	Parksville	-	Post Office reported penny size hail between Parksville and Plum Branch on hwy 28.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Parksville	-	Highway Dept reported some large limbs down on SC138.
January 2005	Tornado (F0)	Parksville	-	Storm Survey found an F0 touched down on SC33-138 and took down trees.
January 2005	Hail	Parksville	-	SKYWARN HAM radio operator reported 3/4 inch hail in Parksville.

Every storm recorded in McCormick 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

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Bracknell's Store Complex	5.2 miles	2026

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 72001465 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
McCormick County	All 22 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.