John L. Hart House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“Hart House, also known as Goodson House, is a historic home located at Springville, Darlington County, South Carolina. It was built about 1856 and is a two-story rectangular frame house with a central block and telescoping wings.”
Wikipedia article John L. Hart House (Springville, South Carolina), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 52 National Register listings published here for Darlington 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.
Listed as. Hart, John L., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. E of CR 133, Springville, 29540
When was it listed? October 1985
Category. building
Also known as. Springville MRA
Census division. Darlington
National Register reference number. 85003138 - 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

331 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 331 fires within 5 miles of John L. Hart House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,686 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 26 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 burning	151
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	105
Arson/incendiarism	26
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Misuse of fire by a minor	14
Railroad operations and maintenance	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Natural	2
Smoking	2

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
8 September 2018	Debris and open burning	150 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2011	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2010	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Darlington County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of John L. Hart House: 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Titanium, 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
Buckholtz Creek	Titanium, Iron	Unknown	Placer , Modern , Fluvial
Darington Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay	Unknown	Sedimentary
Darington Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay	Producer

Every working recorded in Darlington 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
Arthur Goodson House	0.1 miles	1985
John W. Lide House	0.7 miles	1985
Evan J. Lide House	1.1 miles	1985
Wilds Hall	1.9 miles	1985
White Plains	2.0 miles	1985
Clarence McCall House	2.5 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85003138 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Darlington County	All 52 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.