Matson Street Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“Matson Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Kershaw, Lancaster County, South Carolina. It encompasses 26 contributing buildings in a residential section of Kershaw.”
Wikipedia article Matson Street Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Lancaster County · listed in 1990 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Matson St. from Hilton to Pine Sts., Kershaw, 29067
When was it listed? September 1990
Category. district
Also known as. Lancaster County MPS
Census division. Kershaw
National Register reference number. 89002143 - 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

157 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 157 fires within 5 miles of Matson Street Historic District between 1992 and 2019, burning about 539 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 15 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	61
Debris and open burning	49
Arson/incendiarism	15
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Natural	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Smoking	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Fireworks	1
Other causes	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
4 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2009	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 2014	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 August 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 August 1999	Natural	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Lancaster County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Matson Street Historic District: 9 past producers, 3 producers, 3 unknowns, 1 plant. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mica, Granite. 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
Haile Mine	Mica, Silver, Gold, Sulfur, Tin, Molybdenum	Unknown	1827, 1828, 1992
Haile Mine	Silver, Gold	Plant	1827, 1829
Unidentified Clay Pit	Clay	Unknown	Sedimentary
Carolina Mahogany Quarry	Granite	Past Producer
West Mine	Granite	Past Producer
Faulkenberry Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Faulkenberry Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Hilltop Mine	Mica	Producer	1981
Kershaw Mine	Mica	Unknown	Mica
Kershaw Mine	Mica	Producer

Every working recorded in Lancaster County

Storms near this property

29 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kershaw, the town this property stands in, in 29 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 18 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
April 2011	Hail	Kershaw	$30,000	Storm chaser and meteorologist reported 1.5 inch hail in the town of Kershaw.
March 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Kershaw	$10,000	Public reported large road signs down and a few trees.
March 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Kershaw	$10,000	SKYWARN spotter reported damage to a church steeple.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Kershaw	$8,000	EM reported several trees and powerlines down around the town of Kershaw, especially on Country Club Bypass.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Kershaw	$4,000	Sheriff reported trees down near the town of Kershaw.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Kershaw	$4,000	Sheriff reported a couple of trees and powerlines down with power outages.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Kershaw	$2,000	Reports received of some power outages in and around the town of Kershaw from large limbs on powerlines.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Kershaw	$1,000	Kershaw County Country Club reoprted a couple of trees down on the course.
January 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Kershaw	-	Numerous trees were downed across the county.
May 2024	Hail	Kershaw	-	Public report with video of ping pong ball sized hail at Andrew Jackson High School northwest of Kershaw. Time estimated by radar.
May 2024	Hail	Kershaw	-	Public report of quarter sized hail with photos on the north side of Kershaw.
April 2024	Hail	Kershaw	-	Small hail was reported by a trained spotter in Kershaw. Time estimated.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Kershaw	-	Lancaster County dispatch reported three trees down in the town of Kershaw. Time estimated by radar.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Kershaw	-	County Emergency Manager reported a tree down along Kershaw Country Club Road.
September 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Kershaw	-	Emergency management reported trees down in Kershaw on Marion Street and North Matson Street. Time estimated by radar.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Kershaw	-	A tree fell on a house along Matson Rd in the town of Kershaw.
May 2020	Hail	Kershaw	-	Public reported, via social media, a photo indicating penny size hail near the town of Kershaw.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Kershaw	-	An NWS Storm Survey determined that a very strong downburst occurred just east of the town of Kershaw along Arbor Dr, just before Woodhaven Rd. The damage was primarily to trees between Arbor Dr and Woodhaven Rd, with many trees uprooted and some snapped. Peak wind gusts were estimated to be near 105 MPH.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Kershaw	-	Trees down on Fork Hill Rd at Rob Neal Rd. Time estimated.
February 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Kershaw	-	Public reported, via social media, roof damage to a barn in the town of Kershaw, and downed trees and power lines on Blackmon Circle.
March 2012	Hail	Kershaw	-	Sheriff reported nickel size hail on Hwy 341 5 miles east of the town of Kershaw.
June 2008	Hail	Kershaw	-	Public reported nickel size hail in the town of Kershaw.
May 2007	Hail	Kershaw	-	Public reported 3/4 inch hail at Flat Creek road and hwy 265, and Midway Crossroads.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Kershaw	-	Kershaw police reported trees down.
May 2005	Hail	Kershaw	-	Public reported penny size hail in and around the Midway Community.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Kershaw	-	Sheriff reported trees and powerlines down in the town of Kershaw.
May 2003	Hail	Kershaw	-	Newspaper reported 3/4 inch in east Kershaw.
May 2000	Hail	Kershaw	-	Sheriff reported dime size hail.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Kershaw	-	Sheriff reported trees down.

Every storm recorded in Lancaster 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
Clinton AME Zion Church	0.1 miles	1990
Kershaw Depot	0.2 miles	1990
Whitfield Hotel	0.2 miles	2025
Unity Baptist Church	0.3 miles	1990
East Richland Street-East Church Street Historic District	0.4 miles	1990
Dr. William Columbus Cauthen House	3.2 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 89002143 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lancaster County	All 29 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.
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.