Sylvania

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

“Sylvania in McCormick County, South Carolina, near Bradley, South Carolina, was built in 1825. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.”
Wikipedia article Sylvania (McCormick County, South Carolina), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for McCormick County · listed in 1977 · 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

Address. S of Bradley off SC 10, Bradley, 29819
When was it listed? November 1977
Category. building
Census division. McCormick
National Register reference number. 77001533 - 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

103 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Sylvania between 1992 and 2020, burning about 685 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 7 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	42
Debris and open burning	27
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	8
Arson/incendiarism	7
Smoking	4
Natural	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
24 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	105 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	CRESWELL
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	60 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 1998	Smoking	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in McCormick County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Sylvania: 2 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Bradley Mine	Gold	Unknown	1848
Bradley Mine	Gold	Past Producer	Placer
Bradley Prospect	Gold	Occurrence
Young Mine	Gold	Past Producer

Every working recorded in McCormick 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
Eden Hall	1.6 miles	1980
Long Cane Massacre Site	5.8 miles	1983
Lower Long Cane Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	6.3 miles	1999
Otway Henderson House	7.2 miles	1985
Joseph Jennings Dorn House	7.3 miles	1985
McCormick County Office Building	7.4 miles	2024

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 77001533 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
McCormick County	All 22 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.