Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
From the record
“The Means House near Jonesville, South Carolina was built in 1821. Situated on an isolated 20 acres in rural Union County SC, the 2650 square foot Means House has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1973.”
Wikipedia article Means House (Jonesville, South Carolina), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 33 National Register listings published here for Union County · listed in 1973 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.73001734- 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
143 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 143 fires within 5 miles of Means House
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 464 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 7 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
65
Debris and open burning
49
Equipment and vehicle use
10
Arson/incendiarism
7
Misuse of fire by a minor
5
Smoking
3
Natural
2
Other causes
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
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
9 workings within 5 miles of Means House: 5 past producers, 3 unknowns, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Clay. 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
Jonesville, the town this property stands in, in 37 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 22 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 1 lightning, 1 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 massive severe thunderstorm moved south from the Shelby, NC, area into northern Cherokee County and moved slowly across the county. This was a major hail storm with golf ball- to baseball-size hail falling for more than an hour. The largest hail, and the most damage, seemed to occur in the area from south of Gaffney to Jonesville. Up to five inches of rain fell causing localized urban flooding - though none was reported to reach flash flooding levels. Some trees were blown down although the main impact was hail and rain.
A boat was overturned and blown 20 feet in a lot along highway 9 North of Union. Two other boats were lifted and dropped at the same location. In Adamsburg, 2 tool sheds were flattened and a carport damaged by the wind. Several trees were also blown down at the same location.
EM and public reported multiple large tree limbs and a few trees blown down, mainly cross the north side of Jonesville, including the Gilead Hills Dr area. A couple of outbuildings also had some tin roofing removed.
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
5 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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