Indian Fields Methodist Campground

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“Indian Field Methodist Campground is a Methodist campground in Dorchester County, South Carolina at which camp meetings are held. It is on SC Route S-18-73, off US Route 15, about 5 mi (8 km) north of Saint George.”
Wikipedia article Indian Fields Methodist Campground, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Dorchester 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 99 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. About 4 mi. NE of St. George on SC 73, St. George, 29477
When was it listed? March 1973
Category. district
Census division. St. George
National Register reference number. 73001707 - 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

408 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 408 fires within 5 miles of Indian Fields Methodist Campground between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,468 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 71 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	170
Debris and open burning	138
Arson/incendiarism	71
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Smoking	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Natural	2

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
7 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2019	Debris and open burning	175 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Dorchester 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 Indian Fields Methodist Campground: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	East Cooper Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Dorchester 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

2 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
	St. George Rosenwald School	3.3 miles	2018
	St. Paul Camp Ground	3.9 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73001707 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dorchester County	All 10 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.