Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
From the record
“Mayesville Historic District is a national historic district located at Mayesville, Sumter County, South Carolina. It encompasses 62 contributing buildings in the western half of the town of Mayesville.”
Wikipedia article Mayesville Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 28 National Register listings published here for Sumter County · listed in 1979 · category: District.
National Register reference number.79002395- 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
291 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 291 fires within 5 miles of Mayesville Historic District
between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,843 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 52 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
120
Debris and open burning
106
Arson/incendiarism
52
Equipment and vehicle use
9
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
Natural
1
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Mayesville, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 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.
Sumter County Dispatch reported flooding on Lafayette Street, Calhoun Road, and Broad Street. Several rural roads in the area were also flooded and temporarily closed.
Public reported through social media that a couple of pecan trees were downed, two irrigation pivot systems overturned, damage to a roll up door, and a lot of wheat flattened near the Town of Mayesville.
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
4 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.
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.
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