Central Graded School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“Central Graded School, also known as Central School, is a historic school building located at Union, Union County, South Carolina. It was built in 1891, and is a two-story, T-shaped Richardsonian Romanesque style brick building with the square bell tower.”
Wikipedia article Central Graded School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Union 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 as contributing to the listing.
Address. 309 Academy St., Unlon, 29379
When was it listed? March 1978
Category. building
Census division. Union
National Register reference number. 78002534 - 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

228 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 228 fires within 5 miles of Central Graded School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 469 acres in total. 4 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	119
Debris and open burning	57
Misuse of fire by a minor	18
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Arson/incendiarism	7
Smoking	4
Natural	4
Other causes	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
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
4 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Misuse of fire by a minor	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1997	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	16 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Union 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
Judge Thomas Dawkins House	under 500 feet	1973
Union High School-Main Street Grammar School	0.1 miles	1989
Culp House	0.1 miles	1975
Meng House	0.1 miles	1976
Fair Forest Hotel	0.2 miles	1984
Union Downtown Historic District	0.2 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78002534 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Union County	All 33 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.