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Photograph of Zeno Hicks House
Photograph by Bill Fitzpatrick, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Zeno Hicks House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

“The Zeno Hicks House, also known as the McKinney-Hicks Homeplace, is a historic home and national historic district near Chesnee, South Carolina. The district encompasses one contributing building and one contributing structure.”

Wikipedia article Zeno Hicks House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Cherokee County · listed in 1989 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Hicks, Zeno, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. US 221 and Mill Gap Rd., Chesnee, 29323
  • When was it listed? February 1989
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Macedonia
  • National Register reference number. 89000002 - 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

192 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 192 fires within 5 miles of Zeno Hicks House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 687 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 19 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/undetermined65
Debris and open burning61
Arson/incendiarism19
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Equipment and vehicle use13
Smoking12
Natural2
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
9 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use17 acresNorth Carolina Forest ServiceWHOLE LOTTA LOVE
4 September 2010Smokingunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2005Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreNorth Carolina Forest ServiceCHOO CHOO FIRE
21 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNorth Carolina Forest ServicePAINTER RD
2 September 2019Other causesunder an acreNorth Carolina Forest ServiceJACK MCKENNEY RD
2 September 2015Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Zeno Hicks House: 2 unknowns, 2 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Kyanite. 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
Cliffside-Elkin Kyn Belt DepositKyaniteOccurrenceMetamorphic
Cowpens Battlefield Bog-Iron MineIronUnknownBog Iron Limonite
Lower East Trib Cassiterite Occurrence of Floyds CreekTinOccurrencePlacer
Unnamed Granite QuarryGranite, Stone, Crushed/BrokenUnknownMetamorphic
Rutherford County Dredge No. 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rutherford County Dredge and PSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Cherokee 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Cowpens National Battlefield3.0 miles1966

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 89000002 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cherokee CountyAll 14 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.