Midway Plantation

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“Midway Plantation is a historic plantation house located near Fort Motte, Calhoun County, South Carolina. The original Midway plantation was built about 1785, although little of this structure remains.”
Wikipedia article Midway Plantation (Fort Motte, South Carolina), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Calhoun County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. S of Fort Motte off U.S. 601, Fort Motte, 29135
When was it listed? May 1976
Category. building
Census division. Fort Motte-Lone Star
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture, Federal architecture
National Register reference number. 76001694 - 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

125 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Midway Plantation between 1992 and 2019, burning about 380 acres in total. 4 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
Debris and open burning	59
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	37
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Smoking	4
Natural	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
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
3 September 1999	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Calhoun County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Midway Plantation: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Roof Pit	Clay	Producer

Every working recorded in Calhoun 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
Oakland Plantation	1.8 miles	1975
Cherokee Path, Sterling Land Grant	2.8 miles	1976
Zante Plantation	3.8 miles	1976
Col. Olin M. Dantzler House	4.6 miles	1973
Calhoun County Library	4.7 miles	1975
Col. J. A. Banks House	4.9 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76001694 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Calhoun County	All 14 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.