Pinopolis Historic District South

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“Pinopolis Historic District South is a national historic district located at Pinopolis, Berkeley County, South Carolina. It encompasses 12 contributing buildings and consists of the historic core of the planters retreat community of Pinopolis.”
Wikipedia article Pinopolis Historic District South, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Berkeley 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. CR 5, Pinopolis, 29469
When was it listed? August 1982
Category. district
Also known as. Pinopolis MRA
Census division. Moncks Corner
National Register reference number. 82003835 - 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

311 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 311 fires within 5 miles of Pinopolis Historic District South between 1992 and 2020, burning about 863 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 71 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
Debris and open burning	128
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	78
Arson/incendiarism	71
Misuse of fire by a minor	16
Natural	5
Smoking	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
6 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Berkeley County

Storms near this property

13 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pinopolis, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 2006 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Pinopolis	$6,000	The roof of a home was reported to have received structural damage. Several windows were also broken.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Pinopolis	$2,000	Wind damage at Boy Scout Campground on south side of Lake Moultrie. Estimated 60-70 mph winds.
November 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Pinopolis	$1,000	Large limbs down.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Pinopolis	$500	Large tree branches were reported down around Pinopolis, SC. The wind gusts were estimated at 55 mph.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Pinopolis	-	The Pinopolis site measured a wind gust of 62 mph.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Pinopolis	-	A 54 knot wind gust was measured by NWS equipment along the south side of Lake Moultrie.
May 2021	Hail	Pinopolis	-	A local news station reported nickel sized hail in Pinopolis.
October 2013	Funnel Cloud	Pinopolis	-	Media received a report from a viewer of a brief funnel cloud over Lake Moultrie.
August 2012	Hail	Pinopolis	-	A spotter reported hail the size of tennis balls on Lakeside Drive near Lake Moultrie.
August 2008	Hail	Pinopolis	-	Quarter size hail was reported by the public in Pinopolis, South Carolina.
May 2008	Hail	Pinopolis	-	Quarter size hail was reported near Pinopolis, South Carolina.
June 2008	Hail	Pinopolis	-	A trained weather spotter reported nickel size hail and 50 mph wind gusts in Pinopolis, South Carolina.
April 2007	Hail	Pinopolis	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Berkeley 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Pinopolis Historic District North	under 500 feet	1982
William Robertson House	0.2 miles	1982
Biggin Church Ruins	4.1 miles	1977
Gippy Plantation	4.4 miles	2016
Lewisfield Plantation	5.4 miles	1973
Mulberry Plantation	6.6 miles	1966

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82003835 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Berkeley County	All 26 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.