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Photograph of Buck's Upper Mill Farm
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Buck's Upper Mill Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“Buck's Upper Mill Farm, also known as Henry Buck House, is a historic home located at Bucksville in Horry County, South Carolina. The house was built about 1838 and is a typical two-story, central hall, framed farmhouse, or "I"-House.”

Wikipedia article Buck's Upper Mill Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Horry County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 2 sitess as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. N of Bucksville, Bucksville, 29527
  • When was it listed? March 1982
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Conway
  • National Register reference number. 82003868 - 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

204 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 204 fires within 5 miles of Buck's Upper Mill Farm between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,650 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 51 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 burning66
Missing data/not specified/undetermined56
Arson/incendiarism51
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
3 September 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2001Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2007Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2002Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 1999Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 1997Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Horry County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Buck's Upper Mill Farm: 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Socastee PitSandUnknownSedimentary
Asphalt Products PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Plant Number 9Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Horry County

Storms near this property

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bucksville, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2026: 1 heavy rain, 1 lightning. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2026LightningBucksville$5,000Lightning struck a home on Farrier Drive, causing damage and displacing three people.
July 2013Heavy RainBucksville-Heavy rain produced minor flooding on Debbie Lane.

Every storm recorded in Horry 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Hebron Church1.6 miles1977
Socastee Historic District4.8 miles2002
Horry County Courthouse6.6 miles2022
Waccamaw River Memorial Bridge6.6 miles1994
Waccamaw River Warehouse Historic District6.6 miles1986
Old Horry County Courthouse6.7 miles1971

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82003868 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Horry CountyAll 38 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.
  • 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.