USS LAFFEY

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“Sumner-class destroyer constructed during World War II, laid down and launched in 1943, and commissioned in February 1944. She was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Seaman Bartlett Laffey, who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his stand against Confederate forces during the Civil War.”
Wikipedia article USS Laffey (DD-724), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 227 National Register listings published here for Charleston County · listed in 1983 · category: Structure · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. W of Mt. Pleasant on E side of Charleston Harbor, Mount Pleasant, 29464
When was it listed? April 1983
Category. structure
Census division. Mount Pleasant
National Register reference number. 83002189 - 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

13 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of USS LAFFEY between 1993 and 2012, burning about 140 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Arson/incendiarism	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Debris and open burning	3
Fireworks	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
12 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 July 2012	Fireworks	8.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 June 2000	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
31 May 2000	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
18 May 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 April 2004	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 April 2006	Arson/incendiarism	7.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 April 2008	Arson/incendiarism	10 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 USS LAFFEY: 4 producers, 2 unknowns, 1 plant, 1 past producer. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, REE, Thorium, Iron. 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
Airco Alloys	Iron	Unknown
Charleston County Mine	REE, Thorium	Producer
Fort Moultrie Quadrangle	Zirconium, Titanium, Iron, Thorium	Unknown	Placer , Modern , Beach
Cross Country Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Cross Creek Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Mt Pleasant Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Shell Point (Mt. Pleasant Pit)	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	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
USS CLAMAGORE (SS-343)	under 500 feet	1989
USS YORKTOWN (CV-10)	under 500 feet	1982
Castle Pinckney	1.1 miles	1970
Charleston Old and Historic District (Boundary Increase)	1.2 miles	1986
Charleston Old and Historic District (Boundary Increase)	1.2 miles	1985
U.S. Customhouse	1.3 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83002189 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.