Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
From the record
“Hopkins Graded School, also known as Old Hopkins School, is a historic school building located at Hopkins, Richland County, South Carolina. It was built about 1897, as a one-teacher school.”
Wikipedia article Hopkins Graded School, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 181 National Register listings published here for Richland County · listed in 1986 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.86000540- 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
284 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 284 fires within 5 miles of Hopkins Graded School
between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,748 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 40 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
133
Debris and open burning
78
Arson/incendiarism
40
Misuse of fire by a minor
15
Equipment and vehicle use
9
Natural
3
Smoking
3
Railroad operations and maintenance
2
Other causes
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of Hopkins Graded School: 1 unknown, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Thorium, Zirconium, Titanium, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Hopkins, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 16 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 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.
A downburst, with winds up to 90 mph, began just west of Lower Richland Blvd, then continued east across Old Creek Rd and Barberville Loop Rd before dissipating. The downburst path length was approximately 0.25 miles long with a width of approximately 400 yards. There were numerous trees, both hardwood and softwood, that were uprooted or snapped. Some of the trees fell and damaged or destroyed several outbuildings and sheds, and another fell on a garage, causing damage to the structure.
NWS Storm Survey Team confirmed straight line thunderstorm winds uprooted several hardwood and softwood trees along Chappell Creek Lane, Chappell Creek Rd, and Apricot Rd just south of Hopkins, SC. The team estimated peak wind gusts of 85 MPH.
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.
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.
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