Edisto Island Baptist Church

Built in 1818. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“Edisto Island Baptist Church is a historic African-American Baptist church on Edisto Island in Charleston County, South Carolina. Built in 1818, it is a two-story church sheathed in beaded weatherboard with a medium pitched gable roof.”
Wikipedia article Edisto Island Baptist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 227 National Register listings published here for Charleston County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · built in 1818.

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 1 building, 1 site, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. N of Edisto Island, on SC 174, Edisto Island, 29438
When was it listed? April 1982
Category. building
Also known as. Edisto Island MRA (AD); Edisto Island MRA
Census division. Edisto Island
When was it built? 1818
National Register reference number. 82003839 - 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

69 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Edisto Island Baptist Church between 1992 and 2019, burning about 617 acres in total. None started naturally. 18 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	25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Arson/incendiarism	18
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

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
9 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2013	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	12 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 July 2000	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 June 2001	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 June 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire 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

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
Trinity Episcopal Church	0.2 miles	1971
Wescott Road	0.7 miles	1986
Edisto Island Presbyterian Church	0.9 miles	1971
Sunnyside	0.9 miles	1986
Bailey's Store	0.9 miles	1986
Sunnyside Plantation Foreman's House (Boundary Increase)	1.0 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82003839 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.