Photograph of Musgrove Mill State Historic Site — Photograph by John Foxe, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Musgrove's Mill Historic Battle Site

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“Musgrove Mill State Historic Site was the site of the Battle of Musgrove Mill, an action in the American Revolutionary War, which occurred on August 19, 1780, near the Enoree River, on what is the border between Spartanburg, Laurens, and Union Counties in South Carolina, approximately seven miles from Interstate 26.”
Wikipedia article Musgrove Mill State Historic Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Union County · listed in 1975 · category: Site.

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

The listing

Address. 2.5 mi. S of Cross Anchor on SC 56, Cross Anchor, 29335
When was it listed? March 1975
Category. site
National Register reference number. 75001708 - 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

66 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Musgrove's Mill Historic Battle Site between 1992 and 2019, burning about 443 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 5 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	37
Debris and open burning	15
Arson/incendiarism	5
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
6 September 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 1997	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
13 August 2019	Natural	27 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 August 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 July 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Union County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Musgrove's Mill Historic Battle Site: 14 past producers, 7 unknowns, 3 producers, 2 prospects. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Vermiculite, Limestone, General, Kyanite, Gold. 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
Gideon Sillimanite Prospect	Kyanite	Prospect
Gregory Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	1908
West Mine	Gold	Past Producer
Boyd-Whitmore Mine	Vermiculite	Unknown	Metamorphosed Igneous Intrusion
Canal Mine	Vermiculite	Past Producer	Metamorphosed Igneous Intrusion
Cooper #1 & #2	Vermiculite	Unknown	Metamorphosed Igneous Intrusion
Cooper Mine	Vermiculite	Past Producer	Metamorphosed Igneous Intrusion
Deshields #1 & #2 Mine	Vermiculite	Unknown	Metamorphosed Igneous Intrusion
Deshields #2 Mine	Vermiculite	Past Producer	Metamorphosed Igneous Intrusion
Gideon	Vermiculite	Producer	Metamorphosed Igneous Intrusion

Every working recorded in Union 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

4 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
Cross Keys House	4.9 miles	1971
Battle of Blackstock's Historic Site	5.2 miles	1974
Padgett's Creek Baptist Church	6.1 miles	1971
Cedar Bluff	7.4 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75001708 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Union County	All 33 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.