Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
From the record
“Buffalo Mill Historic District is a national historic district located at Buffalo, Union County, South Carolina. The district encompasses 190 contributing buildings and 2 contributing structures associated with the Buffalo Mill textile mill complex and mill village.”
Wikipedia article Buffalo Mill Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 33 National Register listings published here for Union County · listed in 1990 · category: District.
Also known as. Textile Mills designed by W.B. Smith Whaley MPS
Census division. Union
National Register reference number.90001506- 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
154 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 154 fires within 5 miles of Buffalo Mill Historic District
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 348 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
74
Debris and open burning
41
Misuse of fire by a minor
14
Equipment and vehicle use
10
Arson/incendiarism
6
Natural
3
Other causes
2
Smoking
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of Buffalo Mill Historic District: 2 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Buffalo, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 19 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning.
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.
County comms reported a few trees blown down in Union County, including at Least a couple of trees down in the city of Union and at least a couple more near Carlisle.
A roof was blown off an outbuilding with numerous trees blown down from Buffalo to Union. One tree fell on a house on Kelly Rd and another tree on a house on Stevens Rd in Buffalo.
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.
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.
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