Browntown

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“Browntown is a national historic district located near Johnsonville, Florence County, South Carolina. The district encompasses 7 contributing buildings and 4 contributing structures reflecting the self-sufficient way of life practiced by several generations of the Brown family during the 19th and early-20th centuries.”
Wikipedia article Browntown (Johnsonville, South Carolina), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Florence 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. SC 341, Johnsonville, 29560
When was it listed? June 1982
Category. district
National Register reference number. 82003850 - 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

396 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 396 fires within 5 miles of Browntown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,942 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 119 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	132
Arson/incendiarism	119
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	114
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Natural	5
Smoking	2
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
30 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Florence County

Storms near this property

18 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Johnsonville, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1997 and 2019: 14 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 lightning. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Johnsonville	2 hurt, $25,000	A tree fell on a house on North Butler Ave. Two children in the home were injured and were transported to the hospital with head and back injuries.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Johnsonville	$255,000	The roof at Johnsonville Middle School on Maple Avenue sustained significant damage. The Shady Rest Family Restaurant reportedly sustained some damage as did another building housing the Prosser Law Firm, both located on S Georgetown Highway. The time was estimated based on radar data.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Johnsonville	$75,000	A large tree was blown down on a house in Johnsonville.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Johnsonville	$25,000	Strong winds on a farm off of Railroad Avenue peeled back a tin roof. Shingles were also blown off of several homes, and a garage door was blown in.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Johnsonville	$10,000	A metal roof was reportedly blown off a building on East Broadway Street.
July 2004	Lightning	Johnsonville	$10,000	Lightning struck the Ritz Theater building, causing damage to Shirley's Balloons, which joins the old theater.
May 2011	Hail	Johnsonville	$3,000	Hail to the size of golf balls was reported.
September 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Johnsonville	$2,500	A tree was reported down across power lines blocking the intersection of Possum Fork Road and New Hope Road. The time was estimated based on radar data.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Johnsonville	$2,000	Several large tree limbs were observed down. The time was estimated based on radar data.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Johnsonville	$1,000	A tree was reportedly down on Lake City Highway.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Johnsonville	$1,000	A tree was reportedly down on Vox Highway. The time was estimated based on radar data.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Johnsonville	$1,000	A tree was reportedly down on Vox Highway. The time was estimated based on radar data.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Johnsonville	$500	Large tree limbs were reported broken and down.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Johnsonville	-	A large tree was blown down on Pine Street.
June 2005	Hail	Johnsonville	-	Golfball size hail damaged tobacco fields.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Johnsonville	-	Florence central dispatch reported trees down.
July 2000	Hail	Johnsonville	-	Spotter reported dime size hail in Johnsonville. Trees were also reported down on power lines in neighboring Kingsburg.
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Johnsonville	-	Florence Co. Sheriffs Dep. reported trees down in the Johnsonville area.

Every storm recorded in Florence 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82003850 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Florence County	All 29 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.