Cureton House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“Cureton House is a historic home located near Lancaster, Lancaster County, South Carolina. It was built about 1840 and is a two-story, L-shaped, frame Greek Revival style residence with a central hall plan and two rooms in the rear ell.”
Wikipedia article Cureton House, 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 4 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Co. Rd. 29, S of Co. Rd. 39, City Unavailable, 29720
When was it listed? September 1990
Category. building
Also known as. Lancaster County MPS
Census division. Lancaster
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 90000094 - 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

119 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Cureton House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 333 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 6 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	59
Debris and open burning	28
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Arson/incendiarism	6
Smoking	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Natural	3
Other causes	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
6 September 2013	Other causes	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Lancaster County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Cureton House: 6 past producers, 2 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Mica. 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
Sericite Pit Number 1	Mica	Unknown	Metamorphic
Ashe Mine	Clay	Unknown	Sedimentary
Ashe Mine	Clay	Past Producer
Faile Mine	Clay	Producer
John Barnette Mine	Clay	Past Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
Lancaster Mill	Clay	Past Producer
Van Wyck Mine	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Van Wyck Mine	Clay	Producer
Yoder #1(Yoder#2)	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Yoder #2 (Robert Yoder)	Clay	Past Producer	Metamorphic

Every working 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
Waxhaw Presbyterian Church Cemetery	1.3 miles	1975
North Carolina-South Carolina Cornerstone	3.1 miles	1984
Massey-Doby-Nisbet House	5.1 miles	1990
Adam Ivy House	5.7 miles	1990
Craig House	5.9 miles	1990
Lancaster County Courthouse	7.5 miles	1971

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90000094 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.