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Photograph of Heath Springs Depot
Photograph by Bill Fitzpatrick, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Heath Springs Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“Heath Springs Depot, also known as the Southern Railway Depot, is a historic train station located at Heath Springs, Lancaster County, South Carolina. It was built in 1903, by the Southern Railway.”

Wikipedia article Heath Springs station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

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 as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. E. Railroad Ave., Heath Springs, 29058
  • When was it listed? January 1990
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Lancaster County MPS
  • Census division. Heath Springs
  • National Register reference number. 89002147 - 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

151 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 151 fires within 5 miles of Heath Springs Depot between 1992 and 2020, burning about 602 acres in total. 4 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
Debris and open burning58
Missing data/not specified/undetermined47
Arson/incendiarism15
Equipment and vehicle use9
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural4
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1

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
4 September 2007Natural8.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Lancaster County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Heath Springs Depot: 2 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Stone, Dimension. 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
Coral Grey QuarryStone, DimensionProducer
Brothers BelkGoldPast Producer
Redding PlacerGoldUnknownPlacer
Redding PlacerGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lancaster County

Storms near this property

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Heath Springs, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1994 and 1997: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 1995Thunderstorm WindHeath Springs$1,000Trees and power lines blown down.
April 1997HailHeath Springs-no account filed
May 1996HailHeath Springs-no account filed
May 1996HailHeath Springs-no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindHeath Springs-no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindHeath Springs-no account filed

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Battle of Hanging Rock Historic Site2.5 miles1974
Dr. William Columbus Cauthen House3.3 miles1982
Clinton AME Zion Church5.9 miles1990
Mount Carmel A.M.E. Zion Campground5.9 miles1979
Matson Street Historic District6.0 miles1990
Kershaw Depot6.2 miles1990

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 89002147 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lancaster CountyAll 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.