Russell House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“Russell House was a historic inn located near Mountain Rest, Oconee County, South Carolina. It was built about 1867, and considerably expanded around 1890, and served as an inn for travelers between Walhalla and the mountain resort area.”
Wikipedia article Russell House (Mountain Rest, South Carolina), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Oconee County · listed in 1988 · 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 12 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. NW of Mountain Rest on SC 28, Mountain Rest, 29664
When was it listed? February 1988
Category. building
Census division. Mountain Rest
National Register reference number. 83004549 - 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

80 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Russell House between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,389 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 30 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	30
Debris and open burning	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Natural	11
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	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
7 September 1998	Natural	5.0 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	DODGE MOUNTAIN
21 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	DOUBLE SPRINGS
17 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	12 acres	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	JOE BLECKLEY
1 September 2007	Natural	8.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2002	Arson/incendiarism	2.5 acres	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	HOLDEN BRANCH #1
4 August 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	HOLDEN BRANCH #2
31 August 1999	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	WHITE HOUSE

Every fire recorded in Oconee County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Russell House: 12 past producers, 2 prospects, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Asbestos, Olivine, Vermiculite, Asbestos, Magnesite. 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
Laurel Creek Olivine Deposit	Olivine, Vermiculite, Asbestos	Producer	Mafic Intrusive
Laurel Creek Olivine Deposit	Magnesite, Asbestos, Vermiculite	Occurrence
Chattooga River Prospect	Asbestos	Past Producer
Hicks Asbestos Mine	Asbestos	Past Producer
Nicholson Mine	Asbestos	Past Producer
Reid Mine	Asbestos	Past Producer
H.W. Bartley Property	Gold	Occurrence
Hamby Mine	Gold	Past Producer	Placer
Hamby Mine	Gold	Past Producer
Hedden Placer Mine	Gold	Past Producer	Stream Placer

Every working recorded in Oconee 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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Oconee State Park Historic District	5.0 miles	2004
Oconee Station and Richards House	7.2 miles	1971
Ellicott Rock	7.3 miles	1973
Stumphouse Tunnel Complex	7.5 miles	1971

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83004549 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Oconee County	All 24 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.