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Photograph of Glenn Springs Historic District
Photograph by Bill Fitzpatrick, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Glenn Springs Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“Glenn Springs Historic District is a national historic district located at Glenn Springs, Spartanburg County, South Carolina. It encompasses 18 contributing buildings and 3 contributing sites in the historic health resort of Glenn Springs.”

Wikipedia article Glenn Springs Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 64 National Register listings published here for Spartanburg County · listed in 1982 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. SC 150 and Rich Hill Rd., Glenn Springs, 29374
  • When was it listed? November 1982
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Pauline
  • National Register reference number. 82001526 - 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

66 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Glenn Springs Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 272 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined35
Debris and open burning15
Arson/incendiarism8
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking1
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
16 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2002Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 August 1999Natural11 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Spartanburg County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Glenn Springs Historic District: 4 unknowns, 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Sand. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Fairforest Creek Sand MineSandUnknownSedimentary
Mud MineGold, CopperPast Producer
Mud MineGoldUnknownVein
Nott MineGoldPast Producer
Nott MineGoldUnknownVein
Ophir MineGoldPast Producer
West Mine/Bogan OphirGoldUnknownVein

Every working recorded in Spartanburg County

Storms near this property

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glenn Springs, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1994: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 1994Thunderstorm WindGlenn Springs$2,000A small tornado spun up as a thunderstorm moved across ridges in hilly terrain in southern Spartanburg County. The small tornado was viewed by several people and was accompanied by marble-size hail. Witnesses stated there was one flash of lightning and one roll of thunder as the storm moved across. The roofs of a home and barn were damaged and an outbuilding was destroyed. Power was out in the area for a few hours. A similar storm produced some minor wind damage in the Glenn Springs/Pauline area.

Every storm recorded in Spartanburg 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
William Dixon Fowler House0.8 miles2012
Camp Hill2.2 miles1970
Golightly-Dean House4.8 miles1988
Williams Place5.4 miles1982
Walker Hall6.9 miles1977
Smith's Tavern7.2 miles1974

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82001526 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Spartanburg CountyAll 64 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.