Battery Thomson

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“Battery Thomson is a historic artillery battery located at Sullivan's Island, Charleston County, South Carolina. It was built in 1906-1909, and is one of a series of batteries stretching from Fort Moultrie to the eastern end of Sullivan's Island.”
Wikipedia article Battery Thomson, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

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 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 2013 Ion Ave., Sullivan's Island, 29482
When was it listed? June 1974
Category. structure
Census division. Mount Pleasant
National Register reference number. 74001843 - 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

11 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Battery Thomson between 1992 and 2008, burning about 84 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/undetermined	5
Arson/incendiarism	3
Debris and open burning	3

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
9 June 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 June 2000	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
31 May 2000	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 April 2004	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 April 2004	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 April 2008	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
10 March 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 February 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not 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 Battery Thomson: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Fort Moultrie Quadrangle	Zirconium, Titanium, Iron, Thorium	Unknown	Placer , Modern , Beach
Island Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay	Unknown	Sedimentary
Island Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay	Producer
East Copper #1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
R & L Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Shell Point (Mt. Pleasant Pit)	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Sedimentary
Yaupon Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Battery Gadsden	under 500 feet	1974
U.S. Coast Guard Historic District	0.1 miles	1973
Dr. John B. Patrick House	0.1 miles	1995
Sullivan's Island Historic District	0.3 miles	2007
Atlanticville Historic District	0.5 miles	2007
Fort Moultrie Quartermaster and Support Facilities Historic District	0.6 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74001843 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Charleston County	All 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.