Landsford Plantation House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“Landsford Plantation House, also known as the Davie House, is a historic plantation house located near Richburg, Chester County, South Carolina. It was built about 1828, and is a timber-framed weatherboarded vernacular residence.”
Wikipedia article Landsford Plantation House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Chester County · listed in 1987 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. CR 595 1/2 mi. E of US 21, Landsford Township, 29704
When was it listed? February 1987
Category. building
Census division. Fort Lawn
National Register reference number. 86003520 - 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

136 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 136 fires within 5 miles of Landsford Plantation House between 1992 and 2018, burning about 378 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 8 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	65
Debris and open burning	32
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Arson/incendiarism	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Other causes	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Smoking	3
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
6 September 2013	Other causes	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Chester 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 Landsford Plantation House: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unnamed Granite Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown	Igneous

Every working recorded in Chester 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

3 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
Landsford Canal	1.7 miles	1969
Lando School	5.7 miles	2009
Elliott House	7.7 miles	1971

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86003520 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chester County	All 19 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.