Battle of Hanging Rock Historic Site

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“Battle of Hanging Rock Historic Site is a historic battle site commemorating the Battle of Hanging Rock during the American Revolutionary War and located near Heath Springs, Lancaster County, South Carolina. As part of a series of strongholds planned to maintain the British position in South Carolina, an outpost was established at Hanging Rock in 1780.”
Wikipedia article Battle of Hanging Rock Historic Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Lancaster County · listed in 1974 · category: Site.

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

The listing

Address. About 3.5 mi. S of Heath Springs off U.S. 521, Heath Springs, 29058
When was it listed? December 1974
Category. site
Census division. Heath Springs
National Register reference number. 74001860 - 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

128 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Battle of Hanging Rock Historic Site between 1992 and 2020, burning about 555 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 13 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	49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35
Arson/incendiarism	13
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Recreation and ceremony	5
Natural	4
Smoking	4
Fireworks	1
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
4 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 2014	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 August 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Lancaster County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Battle of Hanging Rock Historic Site: 6 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite, Stone, Dimension, Granite. 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
Congaree Quarry	Granite, Stone, Dimension	Past Producer	Igneous
Coral Grey Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Producer
West Mine	Granite	Past Producer
Faulkenberry Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Faulkenberry Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Brothers Belk	Gold	Past Producer
Clyburn Mines	Gold	Past Producer
Redding Placer	Gold	Unknown	Placer
Redding Placer	Gold	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lancaster County

Storms near this property

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Heath Springs, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1994 and 1997: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
January 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Heath Springs	$1,000	Trees and power lines blown down.
April 1997	Hail	Heath Springs	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Heath Springs	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Heath Springs	-	no account filed
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Heath Springs	-	no account filed
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Heath Springs	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lancaster 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
Dr. William Columbus Cauthen House	1.4 miles	1982
Heath Springs Depot	2.5 miles	1990
Clinton AME Zion Church	4.5 miles	1990
Matson Street Historic District	4.6 miles	1990
Kershaw Depot	4.8 miles	1990
Whitfield Hotel	4.8 miles	2025

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74001860 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lancaster County	All 29 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.