Calhoun Mill

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“Calhoun Mill, also known as Rogers Mill, is a historic grist mill located near Mount Carmel, McCormick County, South Carolina. It was built about 1860, and is a three-story, with basement, brick building.”
Wikipedia article Calhoun Mill, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for McCormick 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

Address. NE of Mount Carmel, Mount Carmel, 29628
When was it listed? November 1980
Category. building
Census division. Mount Carmel
National Register reference number. 80003679 - 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

118 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Calhoun Mill between 1992 and 2019, burning about 745 acres in total. 8 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	35
Arson/incendiarism	27
Debris and open burning	26
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Natural	8
Smoking	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Other causes	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.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	26 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2001	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2011	Other causes	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2011	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2007	Natural	20 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in McCormick County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Calhoun Mill: 2 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Manganese. 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
Parsons Mt. Area-Piedmont Mn Belt	Manganese	Prospect
Calais and Douglas Mine	Gold	Past Producer	Vein
Calais and Douglas Mine	Gold	Past Producer

Every working recorded in McCormick 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

5 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
Mount Carmel Historic District	2.6 miles	1982
Calhoun-Gibert House	4.2 miles	1996
John De La Howe State School	6.3 miles	1970
Guillebeau House	6.3 miles	1973
Lower Long Cane Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	7.3 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80003679 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
McCormick County	All 22 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.