Mount Carmel Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“Mount Carmel Historic District is a national historic district located at Mount Carmel, McCormick County, South Carolina. The district encompasses 40 contributing buildings in Mount Carmel.”
Wikipedia article Mount Carmel Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for McCormick 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 listing

Address. SC 823 and SC 81, Mount Carmel, 29840
When was it listed? June 1982
Category. district
Census division. Mount Carmel
National Register reference number. 82003895 - 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

104 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Mount Carmel Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 845 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 12 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	37
Debris and open burning	23
Arson/incendiarism	12
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Natural	10
Smoking	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Other causes	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	26 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2001	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	97 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	LITTLE RIVER FIRE
16 September 2011	Other causes	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in McCormick 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

5 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
Calhoun Mill	2.6 miles	1980
Calhoun-Gibert House	3.2 miles	1996
Guillebeau House	5.6 miles	1973
John De La Howe State School	6.3 miles	1970
Gibert, John Albert, M.D., House	7.6 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82003895 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
McCormick County	All 22 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.