Built in 1839. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
From the record
“Gilreath's Mill is located on South Carolina Highway 101, near the town of Greer, South Carolina. The mill which sits on stone pillars was likely built ca1814, however, records can only confirm its existence as far back as 1839.”
Wikipedia article Gilreath's Mill, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 97 National Register listings published here for Greenville County · listed in 1976 · category: Building · built in 1839.
National Register reference number.76001703- 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
77 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Gilreath's Mill
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 256 acres in total. None 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
22
Misuse of fire by a minor
6
Equipment and vehicle use
6
Arson/incendiarism
5
Smoking
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
6 workings within 5 miles of Gilreath's Mill: 3 producers, 2 past producers, 1 occurrence.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Mica, Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Greer, the town this property stands in, in 46 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 23 hail, 16 thunderstorm wind, 3 lightning, 2 flash flood.
The reports record 1 death and 3 injuries. 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.
Although rainfall rates steadily decreased across Greenville County through the evening hours flooding persisted within the Saluda Enoree and Reedy River basins well into the overnight hours. Major flooding developed along the Saluda River during this time from west Greenville to Piedmont to West Pelzer with water inundating several homes and numerous roads flooded. This was the most significant flooding along that portion of the Saluda since October 1964, while Reedy River flooding in the Greenville area was the worst since September 2004. Flooding ended in most areas during the pre-dawn hours of the 7th although river flooding persisted along the Saluda River through the evening of the 7th.
Several inches of rain fell in just over an hour, resulting in flooding in and around Greer. Numerous roads were flooded. In Pelham, damage was done to a highway that was under construction.
A tree was blown down near the intersection of Batesville Rd and Old Spartanburg Rd in Greer. Two other trees were downed on Roper Mountain Rd in the Five Forks area, and a tree was downed on Piney Mountain Rd in Greenville.
Urban flooding of several flood-prone intersections on Wade Hampton Bvd in Greer. Some of the intersections were covered with more than a foot of water.
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.
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.
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