Taveau Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“Taveau Church, also known as Tavou Church, is a historic church located near Cordesville, Berkeley County, South Carolina. It was built about 1835, and is a small clapboard Classical Revival structure on a low brick pier foundation.”
Wikipedia article Taveau Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Berkeley County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.

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 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. S of Cordesville on SR 44, Cordesville, 29461
When was it listed? February 1978
Category. building
Census division. Cordesville
Architectural style. Federal architecture
National Register reference number. 78002493 - 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

208 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 208 fires within 5 miles of Taveau Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,906 acres in total. None started naturally. 62 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	68
Arson/incendiarism	62
Debris and open burning	56
Railroad operations and maintenance	11
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
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
28 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	LTD
12 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2004	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	25 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 1997	Railroad operations and maintenance	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 July 1999	Arson/incendiarism	40 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	RAIN DELAY
5 July 2012	Fireworks	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Berkeley County

Storms near this property

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cordesville, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2024	Flash Flood	Cordesville	$20,000	Berkeley County Emergency Management reported a washout of Cane Gulley Road near Highway 402.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Cordesville	$1,000	Berkeley County dispatch reported a large tree limb down along Highway 402 at Rectory Hill Road.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Cordesville	-	Law enforcement reported a tree blocking the road near the intersection of Bullhead Road and Cypress Hill Lane.
May 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Cordesville	-	Berkeley County dispatch reported a tree down on Highway 402 near Rectory Hill Road.
May 2008	Hail	Cordesville	-	Quarter size hail was reported in Old Cordesville, South Carolina.
July 1995	Hail	Cordesville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Berkeley 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
Strawberry Chapel and Childsbury Town Site	3.1 miles	1972
Cooper River Historic District	3.6 miles	2003
Mulberry Plantation	3.9 miles	1966
Lewisfield Plantation	4.9 miles	1973
Richmond Plantation	5.0 miles	1980
Medway	5.5 miles	1970

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78002493 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Berkeley County	All 26 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.
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.