Thornwell-Elliott House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“Thornwell-Elliott House is a historic home located at Fort Mill, York County, South Carolina. It was built about 1877, and is a one-story, L-shaped frame dwelling in the Late Victorian style.”
Wikipedia article Thornwell-Elliott House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 62 National Register listings published here for York County · listed in 1992 · 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.
Listed as. Thornwell--Elliott House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 118 Confederate St., Fort Mill, 29715
When was it listed? June 1992
Category. building
Also known as. Fort Mill MPS
Census division. Fort Mill
National Register reference number. 92000644 - 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

61 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Thornwell-Elliott House between 1992 and 2019, burning about 188 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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	27
Arson/incendiarism	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Debris and open burning	9
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Smoking	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 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Railroad operations and maintenance	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2010	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2010	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2010	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in York County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Thornwell-Elliott House: 3 unknowns, 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Mica, Iron. 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
Clawson Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Clawson Mine Or Sutton Mine	Gold	Unknown	1856
Indian Graveyard Mine	Mica	Past Producer
Catawba River Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown	Sedimentary
Catawba River Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Fewell Island Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Unnamed Gravel Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown	Residual, Igneous

Every working recorded in York County

Storms near this property

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Mill, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Fort Mill	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in York County

Newspapers printed here

6,118 digitised pages

2 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 1,364 issues, 6,118 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

Newspaper	Published
Fort Mill Times	1892 to 2020
The Fort Mill News	1890 to 1892

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
Mills House	under 500 feet	1992
Fort Mill Downtown Historic District	under 500 feet	1992
Nation Ford Road	under 500 feet	2007
Wilson House	0.1 miles	1992
Fort Mill Manufacturing Company Mill No. 2	0.3 miles	2025
John M. White House	0.3 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92000644 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
York County	All 62 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.