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Photograph of Springfield Plantation House
Photograph by Bill Fitzpatrick, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Springfield Plantation House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“Springfield Plantation House is the oldest wood-frame house in Fort Mill, South Carolina and was the site of one of the last meetings of the Confederate cabinet. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.”

Wikipedia article Springfield Plantation House (Fort Mill, South Carolina), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 62 National Register listings published here for York County · listed in 1985 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. US 21, Fort Mill, 29715
  • When was it listed? September 1985
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Fort Mill
  • National Register reference number. 85002387 - 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

92 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Springfield Plantation House between 1992 and 2019, burning about 143 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 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/undetermined37
Misuse of fire by a minor21
Arson/incendiarism13
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking5
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
6 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNorth Carolina Forest ServiceHAY FIELD
6 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Carolina Forest Servicenot named
5 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Carolina Forest ServiceANOTHER ROCKET FIRE
4 July 2008Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in York County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Springfield Plantation House: 6 producers, 4 unknowns, 3 past producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Iron. 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
Clawson MineIronPast Producer
Clawson Mine Or Sutton MineGoldUnknown1856
Catawba River PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
Catawba River PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fewell Island Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Unnamed Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownResidual, Igneous
Arrowood QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerSurface
Arrowood QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pineville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerMetamorphic
Pineville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in York County

Storms near this property

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Mill, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 1994Thunderstorm WindFort Mill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in York County

Newspapers printed here

6,118 digitised pages

2 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 1,364 issues, 6,118 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

NewspaperPublished
Fort Mill Times1892 to 2020
The Fort Mill News1890 to 1892

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
William Elliott White House2.6 miles1987
Unity Presbyterian Church Complex2.6 miles1992
National Guard Armory2.8 miles1992
John M. White House2.9 miles1985
Wilson House2.9 miles1992
Mack-Belk House2.9 miles1992

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 85002387 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
York CountyAll 62 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.