Photograph of Daufuskie Island — Photograph by Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Daufuskie Island Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“Daufuskie Island, located between Hilton Head Island and Savannah, is the southernmost inhabited sea island in South Carolina. It is 5 miles (8 km) long by almost 2.5 miles (4.0 km) wide - approximate surface area of 8 square miles (21 km2).”
Wikipedia article Daufuskie Island, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 62 National Register listings published here for Beaufort 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. SW of Hilton Head, Hilton Head, 29915
When was it listed? June 1982
Category. district
Census division. Bluffton
National Register reference number. 82003831 - 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

5 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Daufuskie Island Historic District between 1993 and 2017, burning about 576 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	1
Smoking	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
7 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 May 2013	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
10 May 2017	Smoking	54 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 March 1999	Debris and open burning	480 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 March 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Beaufort 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

1 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
	Stoney-Baynard Plantation	3.1 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82003831 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Beaufort County	All 62 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.