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Photograph of Cassina Point
Photograph by Charles N. Bayless, Photographer, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Cassina Point

Built in 1847. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

One of 227 National Register listings published here for Charleston County · listed in 1986 · category: Building · built in 1847.

Sources: 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. Cassina Point Rd., Edisto Island, 29438
  • When was it listed? November 1986
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Edisto Island MRA
  • Census division. Edisto Island
  • When was it built? 1847
  • National Register reference number. 86003210 - 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

70 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Cassina Point between 1992 and 2019, burning about 426 acres in total. None started naturally. 19 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 burning26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Arson/incendiarism19
Equipment and vehicle use3
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
9 September 1998Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2013Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 July 2000Debris and open burning1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 2012Arson/incendiarism3.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 June 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 June 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use60 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Charleston 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 Cassina Point: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Zirconium, 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
Edisto Island QuadrangleTitanium, Zirconium, IronUnknownPlacer , Modern , Beach

Every working recorded in Charleston 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
Oak Island0.2 miles1986
Old House Plantation0.9 miles1971
Old House Plantation and Commissary (Boundary Increase)0.9 miles1987
Hutchinson House1.6 miles1987
William Seabrook House1.9 miles1971
Edisto Island Baptist Church2.3 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 86003210 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Charleston CountyAll 227 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.