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Grovewood

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“Grovewood, also known as Weston House, is a historic home near Congaree, Richland County, South Carolina. The original one-story dwelling was built about 1765, and moved to this site and enlarged to two-stories about 1835.”

Wikipedia article Grovewood, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 181 National Register listings published here for Richland County · listed in 1986 · 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. SC 769, Congaree, 29061
  • When was it listed? March 1986
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Lower Richland County MRA
  • Census division. Hopkins
  • National Register reference number. 86000530 - 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

293 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 293 fires within 5 miles of Grovewood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,182 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 37 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/undetermined125
Debris and open burning99
Arson/incendiarism37
Equipment and vehicle use11
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Smoking3
Fireworks2
Other causes2
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
30 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2012Other causesunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2019Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2010Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Richland County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Grovewood: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Thorium, Zirconium, Titanium. 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
Myers CreekIron, Thorium, Zirconium, TitaniumUnknownPlacer-Modern-Fluvial

Every working recorded in Richland County

Storms near this property

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Congaree, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
July 2024Thunderstorm WindCongaree-SC Department of Public Safety reported trees down on Congaree Road near the intersection of Old Ferry Road. Time estimated by radar.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindCongaree-SCHP reported a tree down along Clarkson Rd at North Line Rd.
August 2024Flash FloodCongaree-SCHP reported flooding along Cabin Creek Road at Gillwood Drive.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindCongaree-SCHP reported trees down at Meeting House Rd and Clarkson Rd. Time estimated.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindCongaree-Richland Co Emergency Manager reported a tree in the roadway along Clarkson Rd near Hopkins. Exact location and time estimated.
March 2000Thunderstorm WindCongaree-Utility company reported trees and powerlines down.
May 2000HailCongaree-Park Ranger reported 1 inch hail at the Congaree National Swamp.

Every storm recorded in Richland 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
Siloam School2.5 miles1996
Hopkins Presbyterian Church4.1 miles1986
Hopkins Graded School4.1 miles1986
Barber House4.4 miles1986
John J. Kaminer House4.9 miles1986
Good Hope Baptist Church5.7 miles1986

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 86000530 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Richland CountyAll 181 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.