Battery Cheves

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“Battery Cheves is a historic artillery battery located at James Island, Charleston, South Carolina. It was built in 1863, and designed to protect the area between Fort Johnson and Battery Haskell.”
Wikipedia article Battery Cheves, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

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 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. James Island, Fort Johnson Estates, 29412
When was it listed? August 1982
Category. structure
Also known as. Civil War Defenses of Charleston TR
Census division. James Island
National Register reference number. 82003841 - 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

8 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Battery Cheves between 1993 and 2015, burning about 125 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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
Natural	2
Debris and open burning	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
9 August 1999	Natural	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 July 2015	Natural	75 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 June 2000	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 April 2006	Arson/incendiarism	7.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 April 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 April 2012	Recreation and ceremony	1.4 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 December 2000	Debris and open burning	30 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 January 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Charleston County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Battery Cheves: 2 unknowns, 1 producer, 1 plant. 2 still produce. What was taken out: REE, Thorium, Iron, Chromium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
(Facility) Charleston Smelter	Chromium	Plant
Airco Alloys	Iron	Unknown
Charleston County Mine	REE, Thorium	Producer
Fort Moultrie Quadrangle	Zirconium, Titanium, Iron, Thorium	Unknown	Placer , Modern , Beach

Every working 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
Fort Johnson/Powder Magazine	0.9 miles	1972
Marshlands Plantation House	0.9 miles	1973
Stiles-Hinson House	1.6 miles	1974
Unnamed Battery No. 1	2.1 miles	1982
Fort Sumter National Monument	2.4 miles	1966
Castle Pinckney	2.5 miles	1970

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82003841 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.
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.