Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
From the record
“Thornwell-Presbyterian College Historic District is a historic district on the Presbyterian College campus in Clinton, Laurens County, South Carolina. The majority of the 52 buildings in the district were constructed in the early 1900s, around plans by landscape architect Charles Wellford Leavitt.”
Wikipedia article Thornwell-Presbyterian College Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 26 National Register listings published here for Laurens County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.82003873- 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
90 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Thornwell-Presbyterian College Historic District
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 283 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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
50
Debris and open burning
17
Equipment and vehicle use
6
Railroad operations and maintenance
4
Arson/incendiarism
4
Smoking
2
Natural
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
7 workings within 5 miles of Thornwell-Presbyterian College Historic District: 3 unknowns, 3 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Vermiculite. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Clinton, the town this property stands in, in 53 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 35 thunderstorm wind, 16 hail, 2 lightning.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
Numerous trees down from the Hurricane Church Rd area to along I-26 near the highway 66 exit. Several trees fell on the interstate, requiring closure of the east-bound lane for a while. One tree fell on a car, causing minor injuries to an occupant.
Spotter reported a large tree blown down on the campus of Presbyterian College in Clinton. County comms reported another tree blown down on I-26 near Clinton, and another tree down near the intersection of Highways 56 and 66 near Joanna.
A tree was blown down on highway 308, about a mile north of Clinton. Trees and large limbs were also blown down on York St in town. A final tree fell on Young Rd, about 3 miles southeast of town.
A line of severe thunderstorms with a "bow echo" appearance moved swiftly through the Upstate during the morning hours. Highest winds with the bow were around the Georgia border in Oconee County and one small tornado was generated west of Fair Play. Large trees were uprooted and pines were snapped by winds about 85 knots along a path 30 yards wide and one mile long. Gust front winds in the same area accounted for some damage. A roof of an addition to a mobile home was removed in Walhalla and trees fell in many locations. The wet ground contributed to some of the tree damage. In Clemson a tree fell through a residence. Other trees brought down power lines across the area and power was out to several thousand customers well into the evening. In Simpsonville tree limbs were punched through the roof of a residence, the limbs were carried for some distance since there was no trees near the house. Power outages were quite widespread across western parts of Greenville County although Donaldson Center Air Park only recorded gusts to 41 knots.
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
4 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.
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.
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