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Photograph of Woodside Cotton Mill Village Historic District
Photograph by Bill Fitzpatrick, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Woodside Cotton Mill Village Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“Woodside Cotton Mill Village Historic District is a national historic district located in Greenville County, South Carolina. The district encompasses 278 contributing buildings and 2 contributing sites in an early 20th century urban South Carolina textile mill village.”

Wikipedia article Woodside Cotton Mill Village Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 97 National Register listings published here for Greenville County · listed in 1987 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. Woodside Ave. and E. Main St., Woodside, 29615
  • When was it listed? April 1987
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Greenville
  • National Register reference number. 87000678 - 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

33 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Woodside Cotton Mill Village Historic District between 1993 and 2017, burning about 117 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Other causes1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
4 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 2000Debris and open burning4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 June 2002Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 June 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 April 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 April 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 April 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Greenville County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Woodside Cotton Mill Village Historic District: 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Aluminum, Iron, Titanium, Thorium. 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
Edgcomb Steel--Greenville, S.C.Iron, AluminumProducer
Gillard CreekIron, Titanium, ThoriumUnknownPlacer , Modern , Fluvial

Every working recorded in Greenville County

Storms near this property

7 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodside, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
September 2015Thunderstorm WindWoodside$100,000Newspaper reported multiple trees blown down throughout the city of Greenville. One tree fell on a home on Webster Ave, causing significant damage. Another tree fell across I-385 near Stone Ave, blocking traffic for some time. A wind gust of 59 mph (51 knots) was also measured by the ASOS at the Greenville Downtown airport.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWoodside-Sheriffs dispatch reported multiple trees blown down north and west of Greenville.
April 2020HailWoodside-Public reported (via Social Media) quarter size hail in the North Main neighborhood. NWS employee reported up to ping pong ball size hail near Taylors.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindWoodside-County comms reported multiple trees and power lines blown down along Wade Hampton Bvd.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindWoodside-Public reported multiple trees and power lines blown down, mainly on the west and south side of the city of Greenville.
March 2012HailWoodside-Hail up to quarter size fell along B Street in Greenville.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindWoodside-Several trees were blown down near downtown Greenville, concentrated in the area around Main St and Croft St. One tree clipped a house and another tree fell on unoccupied vehicles.

Every storm recorded in Greenville 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
Isaqueena2.6 miles1982
McBride's Office Supply (Additional Documentation)2.8 miles2024
Pettigru Street Historic District3.5 miles1982
Springwood Cemetery3.5 miles2005
East Park Historic District3.5 miles2005
Josiah Kilgore House3.6 miles1975

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 87000678 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Greenville CountyAll 97 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.