Fonti Flora Plantation

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“Fonti Flora Plantation is a historic plantation house located near Monticello, Fairfield County, South Carolina. It was built about 1836, and is a 2-½ story clapboard residence set on low foundations.”
Wikipedia article Fonti Flora Plantation, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 44 National Register listings published here for Fairfield County · listed in 1979 · 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. 5.4 mi. NE of Monticello on SC 99, Monticello, 29015
When was it listed? April 1979
Category. building
Census division. Monticello-Salem Crossroads
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 79002382 - 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

134 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 134 fires within 5 miles of Fonti Flora Plantation between 1992 and 2020, burning about 543 acres in total. 9 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	56
Debris and open burning	27
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Natural	9
Recreation and ceremony	7
Arson/incendiarism	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Smoking	4
Fireworks	2
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
29 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	4.4 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	FS400
26 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	1.4 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	ROCKEY BRANCH
15 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 1997	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Fairfield 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 Fonti Flora Plantation: 2 producers, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Granite, Stone, Dimension, Granite, Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Blair Quarry	Granite	Unknown	Igneous
Blair Quarry	Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer	1908
Blair Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Dickert Quarry	Granite, Stone, Dimension	Past Producer	1908

Every working recorded in Fairfield County

Storms near this property

9 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Monticello, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Monticello	$10,000	EM reported many trees down in the western part of Fairfield county.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Monticello	$6,000	Fairfield Electric reported power outages on Hwy 213 from trees down on powerlines.
March 2012	Hail	Monticello	$5,000	Public reported nickel to quarter size hail and strong winds near Monticello in western Fairfield County.
January 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Monticello	$4,000	DOT reported several trees down along Hwy SC215 in western Fairfield County.
May 2024	Tornado (EF0)	Monticello	-	A National Weather Service storm survey team confirmed a brief EF-0 tornado with peak winds of 80 mph in Northwestern Fairfield County during the early morning hours of May 9th. The tornado likely began in a wooded area northwest of Clark Bridge Road.\|It then crossed the road while moving southeast resulting in multiple downed or snapped trees in and around properties in the 3900 block of Clark Bridge Road. The tornado then likely lifted a short distance beyond Clark Bridge Road in the woods \|behind the impacted properties shortly before reaching Crumpton Creek.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Monticello	-	Fairfield County dispatch reports a tree down along Hwy. 215 at Meadow Lake Road. Time estimated by radar.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Monticello	-	Trees on power lines along Baltic Cir north of Jenkinsville. Time estimated.
July 2011	Hail	Monticello	-	Public reported nickel size hail.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Monticello	-	DOT reported a few trees down on secondary roads.

Every storm recorded in Fairfield 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
Davis Plantation	2.4 miles	1971
Monticello Store and Post Office	4.3 miles	1984
Monticello Methodist Church	4.5 miles	1984
Balwearie	6.8 miles	1984
Albion	6.9 miles	1984
Liberty Universalist Church and Feasterville Academy Historic District	7.0 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79002382 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Fairfield County	All 44 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.
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.