Long Creek Academy

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The Long Creek Academy is a former Christian school that is located at the intersection of Academy Road and South Carolina S-37-339 near U.S. Route 76 near Long Creek, South Carolina in Oconee County.”
Wikipedia article Long Creek Academy, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Oconee 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 14, Long Creek, 29664
When was it listed? November 1987
Category. building
Census division. Long Creek
National Register reference number. 87002059 - 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

90 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Long Creek Academy between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,047 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 24 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 burning	29
Arson/incendiarism	24
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Recreation and ceremony	4
Natural	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Smoking	2
Fireworks	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Other causes	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
24 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-DADE-009
14 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-DADE-008
14 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 1999	Natural	1.0 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	CIRCLING PLANE
21 August 1999	Natural	20 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 July 1997	Fireworks	under an acre	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	GRAPEVINE BRANCH
4 July 1997	Fireworks	under an acre	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	HWY 76

Every fire recorded in Oconee County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Long Creek Academy: 2 prospects, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Mica, Marble, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Bruce Doyle & Reedy Burns Prospects	Mica	Prospect
Marble Prospect	Marble, Dimension	Prospect
Henckel Mine	Gold	Past Producer
Henckel Mine	Gold	Unknown	1908

Every working recorded in Oconee 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Stumphouse Tunnel Complex	7.4 miles	1971

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87002059 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Oconee County	All 24 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.