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Erskine College-Due West Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Erskine College-Due West Historic District, is a historic district in Due West, South Carolina, in the United States. It consists of 88 contributing properties and includes part of the campus of Erskine College as well as private homes, businesses, and other buildings in the town of Due West.”

Wikipedia article Erskine College-Due West Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 17 National Register listings published here for Abbeville 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

Fires near this property

236 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 236 fires within 5 miles of Erskine College-Due West Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 719 acres in total. 6 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/undetermined74
Debris and open burning70
Arson/incendiarism52
Equipment and vehicle use15
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Natural6
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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
9 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use21 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2007Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2013Power generation/transmission/distribution1.1 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Abbeville County

Storms near this property

24 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Due West, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 15 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 3 tornado. 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
May 1998Tornado (F0)Due West$30,000A weak short-lived tornado downed numerous large trees and blew a carport off house, and underpinning off a trailer.
July 2005Tornado (F1)Due West$10,000Tornado track near highway 185 northwest of Due West. Damage was mainly confined to numerous trees that were blown down along the three-quarter mile path. However, one home did receive some roof damage.
July 1997Tornado (F0)Due West$2,000no account filed
March 2002Thunderstorm WindDue West$1,000A couple of trees were reported blown down around Due West, and several trees were blown down in Donalds.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindDue West-County comms reported a few trees blown down around Due West.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindDue West-Law enforcement reported a few trees and large limbs blown down along with tin ripped off one or two outbuildings between Honea Path and Due West.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindDue West-NWS employee reported multiple large tree limbs snapped.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindDue West-County comms reported a few trees blown down from near Highway 20 to Winona Church Rd.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindDue West-Several trees and tree limbs were blown down in the Due West area.
June 2011HailDue West-Penny size hail was reported at highway 20 and Willie Kay Rd.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindDue West-Trees were blown down, with some trees falling on cars, from the Due West area, along hwy 184 to Donalds. Other trees were blown down along highway 178 in the Donalds area.
March 2008Thunderstorm WindDue West-A tree down in Donalds and another tree down on highway 201 south of Due West.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindDue West-Several limbs up to 4 inches in diameter blown down.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindDue West-Two trees blown down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindDue West-Some trees were blown down.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindDue West-A couple of trees were blown down and a pontoon boat was blown off a trailer.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindDue West-Some trees were blown down.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindDue West-Trees were blown down across state highway 185.
August 2009HailDue West-no account filed
March 2008HailDue West-no account filed
June 2007HailDue West-no account filed
March 2003HailDue West-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindDue West-no account filed
May 1998HailDue West-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Abbeville 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

3 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
Young Place0.5 miles1974
Lindsay Cemetery2.5 miles2009
Donalds Grange No. 4973.4 miles1995

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82003825 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Abbeville CountyAll 17 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.