Farmer's Bank

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“Farmer's Bank, also known as the McCormick Messenger Building, is a historic bank building located at McCormick in McCormick County, South Carolina. It was built about 1911, and is a two-story frame and brick building with Classical Revival design elements.”
Wikipedia article Farmer's Bank, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for McCormick 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. Main St., McCormick, 29835
When was it listed? December 1985
Category. building
Also known as. McCormick MRA
Census division. McCormick
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 85003343 - 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

165 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 165 fires within 5 miles of Farmer's Bank between 1992 and 2020, burning about 588 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined	88
Debris and open burning	36
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Railroad operations and maintenance	8
Recreation and ceremony	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Natural	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2007	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in McCormick County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Farmer's Bank: 9 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Barium-Barite, Zinc, Copper, Copper. 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
Abernathy and Kehaya/Dorn Mine	Manganese	Past Producer	1942
Barite Hill	Gold, Barium-Barite, Copper, Silver, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer	Pyrite, Gold, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite
Butler Prospect	Barium-Barite, Gold, Zinc, Copper	Past Producer	1860
Jennings Mine	Gold, Copper	Unknown	1860
Dorn Mine	Gold, Zinc, Copper	Past Producer	Vein/Stratabound
Dorn Mine	Gold, Barium-Barite	Past Producer
Self Mine	Gold, Barium-Barite	Past Producer	1860
Barite Hill	Gold	Past Producer	1984, 1991
Butler Prospect	Gold	Occurrence
Jennings Prospect	Gold	Prospect

Every working recorded in McCormick County

Storms near this property

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McCormick, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
September 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	McCormick	$5,000	Numerous trees and powerlines down McCormick to Modoc.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	McCormick	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in McCormick 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
Hotel Keturah	under 500 feet	1985
McCormick Train Station	under 500 feet	1985
McCormick County Office Building	under 500 feet	2024
Joseph Jennings Dorn House	0.1 miles	1985
McCormick County Courthouse	0.1 miles	1985
Dorn's Flour and Grist Mill	0.2 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85003343 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
McCormick County	All 22 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.