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Photograph of Monticello Methodist Church
Photograph by Bill Fitzpatrick, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Monticello Methodist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“Monticello Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church off SC 215 in Monticello, Fairfield County, South Carolina. It was built in 1861, and is a one-story, front-gable-roofed, weatherboarded frame building in the Greek Revival style with a meeting house floor plan.”

Wikipedia article Monticello Methodist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 44 National Register listings published here for Fairfield 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, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Off SC 215, Monticello, 29065
  • When was it listed? December 1984
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Fairfield County MRA
  • Census division. Monticello-Salem Crossroads
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 84000578 - 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

148 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 148 fires within 5 miles of Monticello Methodist Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 582 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined48
Debris and open burning43
Equipment and vehicle use20
Natural11
Recreation and ceremony7
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Fireworks2

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
29 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use4.4 acresFrancis Marion & Sumter National ForestsFS400
29 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2016Recreation and ceremony6.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Fairfield County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Monticello Methodist Church: 8 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Granite, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite, Stone, Dimension, Granite. 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
Monticello QuarryGranite, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer1975, 1978
Unnamed Dimension Stone QuarryStone, Dimension, Granite, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerIgneous Intrusion
Anderson QuarryGraniteProducer
Number 126 QuarryGraniteUnknownIgneous
Anderson QuarryGranite, Stone, DimensionPast Producer1898
Job 126 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Leiper-Davis QuarryGranite, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer1900
Unnamed Dimension StoneGranite, Stone, DimensionPast ProducerIgneous Intrusion
Unnamed Dimension Stone QuarryGranite, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerIgneous Intrusion
Unnamed Dimension Stone QuarryGranite, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerIgneous Intrusion

Every working recorded in Fairfield County

Storms near this property

9 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Monticello, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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
June 2011Thunderstorm WindMonticello$10,000EM reported many trees down in the western part of Fairfield county.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindMonticello$6,000Fairfield Electric reported power outages on Hwy 213 from trees down on powerlines.
March 2012HailMonticello$5,000Public reported nickel to quarter size hail and strong winds near Monticello in western Fairfield County.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindMonticello$4,000DOT reported several trees down along Hwy SC215 in western Fairfield County.
May 2024Tornado (EF0)Monticello-A National Weather Service storm survey team confirmed a brief EF-0 tornado with peak winds of 80 mph in Northwestern Fairfield County during the early morning hours of May 9th. The tornado likely began in a wooded area northwest of Clark Bridge Road.|It then crossed the road while moving southeast resulting in multiple downed or snapped trees in and around properties in the 3900 block of Clark Bridge Road. The tornado then likely lifted a short distance beyond Clark Bridge Road in the woods |behind the impacted properties shortly before reaching Crumpton Creek.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindMonticello-Fairfield County dispatch reports a tree down along Hwy. 215 at Meadow Lake Road. Time estimated by radar.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindMonticello-Trees on power lines along Baltic Cir north of Jenkinsville. Time estimated.
July 2011HailMonticello-Public reported nickel size hail.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindMonticello-DOT reported a few trees down on secondary roads.

Every storm recorded in Fairfield 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Monticello Store and Post Office0.2 miles1984
Davis Plantation2.1 miles1971
Little River Baptist Church3.0 miles1972
Ebenezer Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church3.0 miles1971
Kincaid-Anderson House3.9 miles1974
Fonti Flora Plantation4.5 miles1979

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 84000578 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Fairfield CountyAll 44 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.