Photograph of Auldbrass Plantation — Photograph by Charles N. Bayless, photographer, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Old Brass

Built in 1941. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“Auldbrass Plantation is a plantation in Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States, near the town of Yemassee. The building complex, consisting of more than 20 structures, was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built starting in 1939.”
Wikipedia article Auldbrass Plantation, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 62 National Register listings published here for Beaufort County · listed in 1976 · category: Building · built in 1941, by Frank Lloyd Wright.

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

The listing

Address. E of Yemassee on River Rd., Yemassee, 29945
When was it listed? June 1976
Category. building
Census division. Sheldon
When was it built? 1941
Architect. Frank Lloyd Wright
National Register reference number. 76001693 - 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

391 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 391 fires within 5 miles of Old Brass between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,099 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 120 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	147
Arson/incendiarism	120
Debris and open burning	90
Equipment and vehicle use	19
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Natural	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Other causes	1
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
3 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 July 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
22 July 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 July 2015	Natural	8.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Beaufort 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
	Sheldon Church Ruins	7.4 miles	1970

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76001693 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Beaufort County	All 62 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.