Fort Pringle

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“Fort Pringle is a historic artillery battery located at James Island, Charleston, South Carolina. It was built in 1863, as part of the James Island Siege Line and protect the Stono River, Johns Island and lower James Island.”
Wikipedia article Fort Pringle, 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. Riverland Dr., James Island, 29412
When was it listed? August 1982
Category. structure
Also known as. Civil War Defenses of Charleston TR
Census division. James Island
National Register reference number. 82004790 - 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

52 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Fort Pringle between 1992 and 2019, burning about 328 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 11 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	24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Arson/incendiarism	11
Natural	3
Recreation and ceremony	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
26 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2019	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 1999	Natural	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 July 2000	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 July 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 July 1997	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 July 2015	Natural	75 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 Fort Pringle: 3 producers, 2 unknowns, 2 past producers, 1 plant. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Chromium. 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
(Facility) Charleston Smelter	Chromium	Plant
Brinson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay	Unknown	Sedimentary
Brinson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay	Producer
Edmondson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay	Producer
Brownswood Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Cross Creek Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Edmondson Hauling Pit 1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Edmondson Hauling Pit 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown	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 LeRoy	0.2 miles	1982
Battery No. 1	0.4 miles	1982
Fort Trenholm	0.8 miles	1982
Battery Tynes	0.8 miles	1982
W. Gresham Meggett High and Elementary School	0.8 miles	2018
Battery No. 5	1.8 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82004790 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.