Cheraw & Darlington Railroad Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“Welsh Neck-Long Bluff-Society Hill Historic District is a national historic district located near Bennettsville, Marlboro County, South Carolina. The district encompasses 250 contributing buildings in the communities of Welsh Neck, Long Bluff, and Society Hill.”
Wikipedia article Welsh Neck-Long Bluff-Society Hill Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 52 National Register listings published here for Darlington 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 listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 250 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. SW of Bennettsville along U.S. 15, Bennettsville, 29593
When was it listed? December 1974
Category. building
Census division. Society Hill
National Register reference number. 74001846 - 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

204 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 204 fires within 5 miles of Cheraw & Darlington Railroad Depot between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,207 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 29 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
Debris and open burning	72
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	67
Arson/incendiarism	29
Smoking	12
Natural	9
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
30 September 2009	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1999	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1998	Smoking	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	12 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2007	Smoking	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Darlington County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Cheraw & Darlington Railroad Depot: 4 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Iron, 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
Harris Creek	Titanium, Iron	Unknown	Placer , Modern , Fluvial
Unidentified Clay Mine	Clay	Unknown	Sedimentary
Unidentified Gravel Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown	Sedimentary
Unidentified Sand Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Darlington 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

1 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
	Japonica Hall	1.2 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74001846 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Darlington County	All 52 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.