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Photograph of Smith Tobacco Barn
Photograph by Jack Boucher, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Smith Barn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“The Smith Tobacco Barn is a flue-cured tobacco barn in Dillon County, South Carolina. It is on the east side of a dirt road, 0.25 mi (0.4 km) south of South Carolina State Highway 17-34, 0.5 mi (0.8 km) north of South Carolina State Highway 17-155, and about 1 mi (1.6 km) east of the intersection of South Carolina State Highway 17-22 and South Carolina State Highway 155.”

Wikipedia article Smith Tobacco Barn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Dillon County · listed in 1984 · category: Building.

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 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. E of Floydale, Floydale, 29563
  • When was it listed? December 1984
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Flue-Cured Tobacco Production Properties TR
  • Census division. Lake View
  • National Register reference number. 84000568 - 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

263 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 263 fires within 5 miles of Smith Barn between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,277 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 63 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 burning88
Missing data/not specified/undetermined65
Arson/incendiarism63
Equipment and vehicle use29
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
Other causes1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2010Debris and open burning1.2 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Debris and open burning1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Dillon County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Smith Barn: 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Dillon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
Dillon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Dillon County

Storms near this property

13 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Floydale, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1998 and 2018: 6 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2010Thunderstorm WindFloydale$7,000Trees and power lines were reported down near the intersection of Highway 917 and Burke Road.
May 2010HailFloydale$5,000Hail to the size of quarters was reported.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindFloydale$1,000A tree was reported down at the intersection of Highway 917 and Burke Road.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindFloydale$1,000A tree was reported down on Lester Road. The time was estimated based on radar data.
May 2012HailFloydale$500One inch hail was measured on Haymount Road.
September 2018Tornado (EF0)Floydale-A weak tornado touched down south of Lester Road between the |Little Pee Dee River and Riverview Loop. It crossed Lester Road |moving north, and broke large limbs out of several trees. A few |small pine trees were also broken off and knocked across the road.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindFloydale-A wind gust was estimated to 60 mph.
May 2012HailFloydale-Hail up to the size of pennies was reported.
March 2008HailFloydale-A cooperative observer reported hail up to the size of quarters.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindFloydale-Trees were reported down on Lester Road. The report was relayed via Dillon County 911 Center.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindFloydale-Power lines were reported down on State Route 917. The Report was relayed via Dillon County 911 Center.
April 2000HailFloydale-Law enforcement reported dime size hail.
May 1998HailFloydale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dillon 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

1 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Meekins Barn2.3 miles1984

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 84000568 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dillon CountyAll 20 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.
  • 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.