Cape Romain Lighthouses

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.

From the record

“The Cape Romain Lighthouses are a pair of brick lighthouses on Lighthouse Island southeast of McClellanville, South Carolina. The lighthouses are on the Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge.”
Wikipedia article Cape Romain Lighthouses, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 227 National Register listings published here for Charleston County · listed in 1981 · category: Structure.

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 2 structuress as contributing to the listing.
Address. SE of McClellanville on Lighthouse Island, McClellanville
When was it listed? November 1981
Category. structure
Census division. McClellanville
National Register reference number. 81000563 - 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

1 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Cape Romain Lighthouses in 1993, burning about 40 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Recreation and ceremony	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 January 1993	Recreation and ceremony	40 acres	Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge	LIGHTHOUSE

Every fire recorded in Charleston County

Storms near this property

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McClellanville, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	McClellanville	$2,000	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Charleston 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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church	6.8 miles	2004
	McClellanville Historic District	6.9 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 81000563 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Charleston County	All 227 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.
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.