Parris Island Drydock and Commanding Generals House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“Parris Island Drydock and Commanding Generals House is a historic home and drydock and national historic district located at Parris Island, Beaufort County, South Carolina. The district encompasses one contributing building and two contributing structures at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island.”
Wikipedia article Parris Island Drydock and Commanding Generals House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 62 National Register listings published here for Beaufort County · listed in 1978 · category: District.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 structuress, 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Mexico and Tripoli Sts., Parris Island, 29902
When was it listed? November 1978
Category. district
Census division. Beaufort-Port Royal
National Register reference number. 78002492 - 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

67 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Parris Island Drydock and Commanding Generals House between 1993 and 2020, burning about 266 acres in total. None started naturally. 17 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	29
Arson/incendiarism	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Fireworks	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
9 August 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 June 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 June 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 June 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 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

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
Isaac Fripp House Ruins	1.9 miles	1988
F.W. Scheper Store	2.1 miles	2004
Union Church of Port Royal	2.2 miles	2010
Port Royal School	2.4 miles	2014
Riverside Plantation Tabby Ruins	2.9 miles	1988
Fort Fremont Hospital	3.3 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78002492 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.