Old Ebenezer Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“Old Ebenezer Church, also known as Ebenezer Methodist Episcopal Church, South, is a historic church located near Latta, Marion County, South Carolina. It was built in 1856, and is a one-story, rectangular meeting house style frame church sheathed in white clapboard.”
Wikipedia article Old Ebenezer Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Marion County · listed in 1973 · category: Building.

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 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 5 mi. S of Latta on SC 38, Latta, 29571
When was it listed? March 1973
Category. building
Census division. Marion
National Register reference number. 73001719 - 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

233 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 233 fires within 5 miles of Old Ebenezer Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,342 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 49 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	80
Debris and open burning	62
Arson/incendiarism	49
Equipment and vehicle use	19
Natural	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Smoking	5
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.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
4 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1997	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2007	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Marion 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

4 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Dew Barn	1.6 miles	1984
Marion High School	7.2 miles	2001
Marion Historic District (Boundary Increase)	7.6 miles	1979
Marion Historic District	7.7 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73001719 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Marion County	All 16 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.