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U.S. Coast Guard Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“Coast Guard Historic District is a national historic district located at Sullivan's Island, Charleston County, South Carolina. The district encompasses three contributing buildings and one contributing structure on Sullivan's Island.”

Wikipedia article U.S. Coast Guard Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 227 National Register listings published here for Charleston County · listed in 1973 · category: District.

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 3 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Ion Ave. between Station 18 and Station 18 1/2, Sullivans Island, 29482
  • When was it listed? June 1973
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Mount Pleasant
  • National Register reference number. 73001703 - 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

10 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of U.S. Coast Guard Historic District between 1993 and 2008, burning about 68 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 June 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 June 2000Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
31 May 2000Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 April 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 April 2004Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 April 2008Arson/incendiarism10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 March 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 December 2000Debris and open burning30 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Charleston County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of U.S. Coast Guard Historic District: 3 past producers, 2 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zirconium, Titanium, Iron, Thorium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Fort Moultrie QuadrangleZirconium, Titanium, Iron, ThoriumUnknownPlacer , Modern , Beach
Island PitSand and Gravel, Construction, ClayUnknownSedimentary
Island PitSand and Gravel, Construction, ClayProducer
East Copper #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
R & L PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Shell Point (Mt. Pleasant Pit)Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSedimentary
Yaupon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Charleston 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 73001703 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Charleston CountyAll 227 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.