Pee Dee River Rice Planters Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.

From the record

“Pee Dee River Rice Planters Historic District is a set of historic rice plantation properties and national historic district located near Georgetown, Georgetown County, South Carolina.”
Wikipedia article Pee Dee River Rice Planters Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Georgetown County · listed in 2020 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Along the Pee Dee and Waccamaw Rivers, Pawleys Island, 29440
When was it listed? October 2020
Category. district
Also known as. Georgetown County Rice Culture MPS
Census division. Plantersville
National Register reference number. 88000532 - 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

173 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 173 fires within 5 miles of Pee Dee River Rice Planters Historic District between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,619 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 37 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	67
Debris and open burning	59
Arson/incendiarism	37
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Fireworks	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
5 September 1997	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1998	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 1999	Natural	7.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2008	Natural	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 August 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Georgetown 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Prince Frederick's Chapel Ruins	0.8 miles	1974
Chicora Wood Plantation	1.2 miles	1973
Sandy Island School	2.4 miles	2020
All Saints' Episcopal Church, Waccamaw	2.9 miles	1991
Cedar Grove Plantation Chapel	2.9 miles	1991
Brookgreen Gardens	3.9 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88000532 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Georgetown County	All 38 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.