Cedar Grove Plantation Chapel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“Cedar Grove Plantation Chapel, also known as Summer Chapel, All Saints' Episcopal Church, and Waccamaw, is a historic plantation chapel located near Pawleys Island, Georgetown County, South Carolina. It was built c. 1850, and is a small, frame vernacular Gothic Revival style chapel.”
Wikipedia article Cedar Grove Plantation Chapel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Georgetown County · listed in 1991 · 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. SC 255 .2 mi. N of jct. with SC 46, Pawleys Island, 29585
When was it listed? March 1991
Category. building
Also known as. Georgetown County Rice Culture MPS
Census division. Waccamaw Neck
National Register reference number. 91000231 - 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

87 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Grove Plantation Chapel between 1992 and 2019, burning about 688 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 22 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	33
Debris and open burning	26
Arson/incendiarism	22
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
20 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2008	Natural	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 July 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 June 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 June 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 June 2004	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Georgetown County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cedar Grove Plantation Chapel: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Zirconium, Thorium, Titanium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Pawleys Island	Iron, Zirconium, Thorium, Titanium	Unknown	Placer , Modern , Beach

Every working recorded in Georgetown 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
All Saints' Episcopal Church, Waccamaw	under 500 feet	1991
Holy Cross Faith Memorial School	1.5 miles	2024
Pee Dee River Rice Planters Historic District	2.9 miles	2020
Pawleys Island Historic District	3.0 miles	1972
Prince Frederick's Chapel Ruins	3.6 miles	1974
Sandy Island School	3.7 miles	2020

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91000231 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Georgetown County	All 38 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.