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One of 227 National Register listings published here for Charleston County · listed in 1994 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Sunnyside Plantation Foreman's House (Boundary Increase)
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. N of jct. of Peters Point and Creekwood Rd., Edisto Island, 29438
- When was it listed? February 1994
- Category. building
- Also known as. Edisto Island MRA
- Census division. Edisto Island
- National Register reference number. 94000024 - 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
69 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Sunnyside Plantation Foreman's House (Boundary Increase) between 1992 and 2018, burning about 555 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 18 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 burning | 26 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 18 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2013 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 10 September 1999 | Natural | 5.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 August 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 12 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 August 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 July 2000 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 July 2010 | Natural | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 July 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Sunnyside | 0.1 miles | 1986 |
| Presbyterian Manse | 0.7 miles | 1971 | |
 | Trinity Episcopal Church | 0.9 miles | 1971 |
 | Edisto Island Baptist Church | 1.0 miles | 1982 |
 | Wescott Road | 1.0 miles | 1986 |
 | Edisto Island Presbyterian Church | 1.0 miles | 1971 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 94000024 in Record Group 79. |
| Charleston County | All 227 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.