Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
From the record
“Little Barnwell Island is a historic archeological site located near Port Royal, Beaufort County, South Carolina. The site consists of two shell and earth mounds located on the eastern side of Little Barnwell Island overlooking Whale Branch.”
Wikipedia article Little Barnwell Island, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 62 National Register listings published here for Beaufort County · listed in 1973 · category: Structure.
National Register reference number.73001676- 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
162 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 162 fires within 5 miles of Little Barnwell Island
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 701 acres in total. None started naturally. 44 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
57
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
51
Arson/incendiarism
44
Misuse of fire by a minor
7
Equipment and vehicle use
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
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
1 working within 5 miles of Little Barnwell Island: 1 past producer.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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
Port Royal, the town this property stands in, in 30 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 16 thunderstorm wind, 5 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.
A National Weather Service (NWS) storm survey team determined that an EF-1 tornado occurred near Port Royal in Beaufort County. This tornado was likely part of the same storm that hit Parris Island just to the south. It began near 11th Street, between Paris and London Avenues, where it snapped several trees including one tree that hit a home on 11th Street. The tornado continued northward across 14th and 15th Streets, close to Paris Avenue. Many hardwood trees and large limbs were snapped in this area, which also took down some powerlines along Paris Avenue. The tornado then moved across the southern portion of Paris Avenue West, snapping more trees and limbs with some falling on a few homes and buildings. Finally, the tornado crossed Ribaut Road, ending just north of the intersection of Ribaut and Royal Palms Roads. All total, the tornado damaged at least 44 buildings in Port Royal and caused an estimated one million dollars in damage. The maximum strength of the tornado was estimated to be EF-1, with peak winds of 95 mph.
Beaufort County Emergency Management reported a tree down on power lines at 16th Street and Old Shell Road. There were also two trees down on a residence on 17th Street.
A trained spotter reported several large tree limbs down near Ballard Circle. The largest of the limbs was approximately 8 feet in length and 4 inches in diameter.
Law enforcement reported a tree through the roof of Port Royal Elementary School. Trees also fell onto residences along Ribaut Road and Ridenour Place in Port Royal.
A trained weather spotter reported dime to nickel size hail with a few golf ball size hail stones at the South Carolina National Golf Club, 2 miles east-northeast of Parris Island, South Carolina.
Lightning struck a power line and traveled through the line to a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Port Royal. Two fires were started which caused some damage to the building.
Several hours of very heavy rainfall dropped 4 to 6 inches of rain across parts of the county. In Port Royal, many roads were flooded, several cars were swamped, and a restaurant took in 2 to 4 feet of water
3 papers published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 108 issues,
433 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
3 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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