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Photograph of Fairfield Plantation
Photograph by C.O. Greene, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Fairfield Plantation

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“Fairfield Plantation, also known as the Lynch House is a plantation about 5 mi (8 km) east of McClellanville in Charleston County, South Carolina. It is adjacent to the Wedge Plantation and just north of Harrietta Plantation.”

Wikipedia article Fairfield Plantation (Charleston County, South Carolina), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 227 National Register listings published here for Charleston County · listed in 1974 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. N of McClellanville, McClellanville, 29458
  • When was it listed? July 1974
  • Category. building
  • Census division. McClellanville
  • National Register reference number. 74001838 - 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

236 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 236 fires within 5 miles of Fairfield Plantation between 1992 and 2019, burning about 5,013 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 81 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
Arson/incendiarism81
Missing data/not specified/undetermined76
Debris and open burning63
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural4
Smoking3

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
26 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 2011Smokingunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
31 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 July 2011Naturalunder an acreFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsFLIP FLOP
8 June 2000Arson/incendiarism15 acresFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsTEAM
8 June 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Charleston County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Fairfield Plantation: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zirconium, Iron, Titanium, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
North Santee MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
Santee QuadrangleZirconium, Iron, TitaniumUnknownPlacer , Modern , Beach

Every working recorded in Charleston County

Storms near this property

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McClellanville, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1995Thunderstorm WindMcClellanville$2,000no account filed

Every storm 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Wedge, The0.9 miles1980
Harrietta Plantation1.3 miles1975
Old Georgetown Road1.4 miles2014
Old Georgetown Road1.5 miles2014
Old Georgetown Road1.5 miles2014
Hampton Plantation2.2 miles1970

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 74001838 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.
  • 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.