Cornwell Inn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“Cornwell Inn, also known as Cornwell's, is a historic inn located near Blackstock, Chester County, South Carolina. The original portion was built about 1841, and is a five-bay, heavy-timber frame and weatherboard Federal style building, with a double pitched gable roof.”
Wikipedia article Cornwell Inn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Chester County · listed in 1994 · 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. Jct. of US 321 and SC 205, Blackstock, 29014
When was it listed? February 1994
Category. building
Census division. Chester
National Register reference number. 94000044 - 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

115 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Cornwell Inn between 1992 and 2019, burning about 480 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 14 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	54
Debris and open burning	26
Arson/incendiarism	14
Natural	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Other causes	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
4 September 2017	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	56 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Chester 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 Cornwell Inn: 1 past producer. 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Peay Mine	Gold	Past Producer	Gold

Every working recorded in Chester County

Storms near this property

8 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blackstock, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2007 and 2026: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. 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
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Blackstock	-	Utility company reported trees blown down on power lines and causing an outage along Hopewell Church Rd.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Blackstock	-	County comms reported trees blown down on Rambo Road and additional trees down on Firetower Rd.
May 2016	Hail	Blackstock	-	Public reported quarter size hail via Social Media.
May 2012	Hail	Blackstock	-	Nickel size hail was reported between Blackstock and Cornwell.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Blackstock	-	Large tree limbs were blown down on Shannon Rd in the Blackstock community.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Blackstock	-	Three trees blown down.
April 2012	Hail	Blackstock	-	no account filed
April 2008	Hail	Blackstock	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chester 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
Colvin-Fant-Durham Farm Complex	5.1 miles	1992
Chester City Hall and Opera House	6.9 miles	1973
Kumler Hall	6.9 miles	1983
Chester Historic District	7.1 miles	1972
Finley High School	7.3 miles	2025
Chester Historic District (Boundary Increase)	7.3 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94000044 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chester County	All 19 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.