Unnamed Battery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“Unnamed Battery is an historic artillery battery located at West Ashley, Charleston, South Carolina. It was built in 1862, to protect the exterior western lines running from the Stono River on the south to the Ashley River at Bee's Ferry.”
Wikipedia article Unnamed Battery, 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. St. Andrew, Shaftsbury Townhouses, 29414
When was it listed? August 1982
Category. structure
Also known as. Civil War Defenses of Charleston TR
Census division. West Ashley
National Register reference number. 82003846 - 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

79 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Unnamed Battery between 1992 and 2020, burning about 376 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 16 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/undetermined	35
Debris and open burning	23
Arson/incendiarism	16
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Natural	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
25 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 July 2000	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 July 2011	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 July 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Charleston County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Unnamed Battery: 4 past producers, 3 producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Clay, Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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
Brinson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay	Unknown	Sedimentary
Brinson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay	Producer
Charleston Region Deposit	Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer	1867
Brownswood Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Cross Country Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Cross Creek Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Mt Pleasant Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Murraywood Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

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
Battery Wilkes	0.9 miles	1982
St. Andrews Episcopal Church	2.5 miles	1973
Wehaken	3.6 miles	2026
Fenwick Hall	3.7 miles	1972
Site of Old Charles Towne	3.9 miles	1969
Farmfield Plantation House	4.0 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82003846 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.