Mount Hebron Temperance Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“Mount Hebron Temperance Hall, also known as Division Room of the Saludavill Division No. 47, Sons of Temperance and Division Room of the Mt. Hebron Division No. 7, Sons of Temperance, is a historic temperance hall located at West Columbia, Lexington County, South Carolina.”
Wikipedia article Mount Hebron Temperance Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 56 National Register listings published here for Lexington County · listed in 1980 · 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. 3041 Leaphart Rd., West Columbia, 29169
When was it listed? November 1980
Category. building
Census division. West Columbia-Cayce
National Register reference number. 80003677 - 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

365 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 365 fires within 5 miles of Mount Hebron Temperance Hall between 1992 and 2020, burning about 529 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 27 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	169
Misuse of fire by a minor	83
Debris and open burning	44
Arson/incendiarism	27
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Recreation and ceremony	9
Smoking	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Fireworks	1
Natural	1
Other causes	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 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1998	Smoking	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Lexington County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Mount Hebron Temperance Hall: 6 producers, 5 unknowns, 3 past producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory), 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
Cayce Quarry	Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer	1893
Cayce Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Cayce Silica Plant	Silica	Unknown
Green Hole	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension, Granite	Past Producer	Igneous
Guignard Mill	Clay, Kaolin	Past Producer
Harleys Mill Pond	Iron, Titanium, Zirconium	Unknown	Placer , Modern , Fluvial
Lexington Mine	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
Westinghouse Elec. Corp--Columbia	Thorium	Unknown
Corley Mill Rd Pit	Clay	Producer	Metamorphic
Duncan Lakes Mine	Clay	Producer

Every working recorded in Lexington County

Storms near this property

15 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Columbia, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1995 and 2011: 8 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 lightning. 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 2003	Lightning	West Columbia	$55,000	Lightning struck a home setting on fire and destroying it.
February 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	West Columbia	$14,000	Public reported roof partially torn off a building and damage to a car.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	West Columbia	$2,000	West Columbia police reported powerlines down on several roads.
April 1995	Hail	West Columbia	$2,000	no account filed
June 1995	Hail	West Columbia	$1,000	no account filed
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	West Columbia	-	EM reported some trees down on East Steel street.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	West Columbia	-	NWS employee reported large limbs down on Mineral Springs road in the Saluda Shoals subdivision.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	West Columbia	-	Sheriff reported several trees down at Lexington Hospital on hwy 378.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	West Columbia	-	West Columbia police reported numerous trees down.
March 2000	Hail	West Columbia	-	Radio and TV stations reported golf ball size hail.
April 1998	Hail	West Columbia	-	TV 10 spotter reported golf ball size hail at the Lexington Medical Center near I26 and hwy 378.
April 1998	Hail	West Columbia	-	SKYWARN spotter reported 3/4 inch hail at Oak Dr. and U.S.1.
April 1998	Hail	West Columbia	-	SKYWARN spotter reported 3/4 inch hail on U.S.1.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	West Columbia	-	Sheriff reports trees down.
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	West Columbia	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lexington 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
Saluda Factory Historic District	2.5 miles	1973
Colonial-Hites Company	2.7 miles	2018
Gunter-Summers House	3.4 miles	1987
Still Hopes	3.7 miles	1983
Professional Building	4.0 miles	2025
New Brookland Historic District	4.0 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80003677 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lexington County	All 56 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.