Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
From the record
“Abbeville Historic District is a historic district in Abbeville, South Carolina. It includes several properties listed separately in the National Register of Historic Places, including the Abbeville County Courthouse and the Abbeville Opera House.”
Wikipedia article Abbeville Historic District (Abbeville, South Carolina), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 17 National Register listings published here for Abbeville County · listed in 1972 · category: District.
National Register reference number.72001579- 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
221 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 221 fires within 5 miles of Abbeville Historic District (Boundary Decrease)
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 302 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 12 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
87
Debris and open burning
57
Equipment and vehicle use
22
Misuse of fire by a minor
17
Arson/incendiarism
12
Railroad operations and maintenance
10
Smoking
9
Natural
3
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
Fireworks
1
Recreation and ceremony
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 National Weather Service names
Abbeville, the town this property stands in, in 64 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 35 thunderstorm wind, 17 hail, 5 lightning, 3 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.
NWS storm survey found the path of a weak tornado on the north side of the city of Abbeville. The tornado touched down near the intersection of Beltline Rd and Highway 20. The tornado moved due east through a forested area before impacting a residential neighborhood near the intersection of Mt Olive Church Rd and Old Douglas Mill Rd. In addition to numerous trees and power lines being blown down along the path, a large oak tree fell through a home, a metal carport was ripped from another home, and column supports torn from another home in this area.
After early morning flash flooding, rain rates moderated across the lower Piedmont, but flooding gradually expanded, with high water conditions remaining in place throughout much of the 4th. The main stream affected during this time was Dry Creek and/or Long Cane Creek, with Miller Mill Rd closed due to high water.
NWS survey found a small damage area consisent with EF0 tornado damage in northeast Abbeville County. Damage was mainly confined to downed trees and power lines.
Fifteen to eighteen roads were blocked by fallen trees in and around the city of Abbeville. There were also quite a few power outages due to trees and limbs falling on lines in the city. Trees were also downed up to 5 miles east of town where the skirting was blown off of a mobile home.
Large limbs on power lines on highway 28 bypass. Also, a tree fell on and damaged a home on Greenville St and trees took down 3 power lines on Harrisburg Street.
A tornado touched down briefly in the Parsons Mountain area of the Sumter National Forest, blowing down several hundred trees along its 1/4 mile track.
6 papers published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 4,076 issues,
25,790 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be
looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
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.
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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