Fort Fremont Battery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

From the record

“Fort Fremont was a military installation on Saint Helena Island, Beaufort County, South Carolina. The fort and battery is historically significant as an example of late nineteenth and early twentieth century military architecture and as one of two surviving coastal fortifications in the United States intact from the Spanish-American War era.”
Wikipedia article Fort Fremont, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 62 National Register listings published here for Beaufort County · listed in 2010 · category: Structure.

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 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 181 Bay Point Rd., St. Helena Island, 29920
When was it listed? May 2010
Category. structure
Also known as. Historic Resources of St. Helena Island c. 1740-c. 1935 MPS
Census division. St. Helena Island
National Register reference number. 88001821 - 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

54 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Fort Fremont Battery between 1993 and 2020, burning about 243 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 11 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	25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Arson/incendiarism	11
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	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
9 August 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 June 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 June 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 June 2000	Debris and open burning	15 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 June 2019	Natural	20 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Beaufort 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
Fort Fremont Hospital	0.2 miles	1989
Riverside Plantation Tabby Ruins	0.7 miles	1988
Tombee Plantation	1.2 miles	1975
Isaac Fripp House Ruins	2.6 miles	1988
Parris Island Drydock and Commanding Generals House	3.5 miles	1978
Orange Grove Plantation	5.0 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88001821 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Beaufort County	All 62 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.