Summer Chapel, Prince Frederick's Episcopal Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“Summer Chapel, Prince Frederick's Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal chapel associated with Prince Frederick's Episcopal Church and located on CR 52 in Plantersville, Georgetown County, South Carolina. It was finished by 1836, and is a one-story, frame chapel with clapboard exterior walls and standing seam metal gable roof.”
Wikipedia article Summer Chapel, Prince Frederick's Episcopal Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Georgetown County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. CR 52, Plantersville, 29440
When was it listed? October 1988
Category. building
Also known as. Georgetown County Rice Culture MPS
Census division. Plantersville
National Register reference number. 88000535 - 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

197 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 197 fires within 5 miles of Summer Chapel, Prince Frederick's Episcopal Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,945 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 51 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	73
Debris and open burning	60
Arson/incendiarism	51
Natural	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
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
24 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	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
11 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	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
26 August 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Georgetown County

Storms near this property

13 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Plantersville, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 5 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
September 2018	Flash Flood	Plantersville	1 killed, $20,000	A person accidentally drove into a flooded area and drowned.
May 2015	Lightning	Plantersville	1 hurt	A man was under his truck when it was struck by lightning. He sustained only minor injuries.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Plantersville	$7,000	A National Weather Service Storm Survey found 10 pine trees down. The damage was the result of a microburst.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Plantersville	$3,000	Trees were reported down in the 14000 block of N Fraser Street.
October 2015	Flash Flood	Plantersville	$2,000	Portions of Lamb Road were reported flooded.
June 2020	Hail	Plantersville	-	Quarter size hail was reported in Plantersville.
August 2000	Hail	Plantersville	-	Fire department reported dime size hail.
April 1999	Hail	Plantersville	-	Sheriff reported hail and wind gusts over 60 mph causing a power outage in the area.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Plantersville	-	WIND GUST TO 50 KTS DOWNED TREES IN THE YAUHANNAH COMMUNITY (ABOUT 5N OF PLANTERSVILLE)
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Plantersville	-	Trees down.
May 1999	Hail	Plantersville	-	no account filed
April 1997	Hail	Plantersville	-	no account filed
March 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Plantersville	-	no account filed

Every storm 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
Summer Chapel Rectory, Prince Frederick's Episcopal Church	0.2 miles	1988
Chicora Wood Plantation	3.3 miles	1973
Prince Frederick's Chapel Ruins	3.9 miles	1974
Pee Dee River Rice Planters Historic District	4.5 miles	2020
Sandy Island School	5.3 miles	2020
Black River Plantation House	6.0 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88000535 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.
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.