Seaside School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“Seaside School, also known as Seaside Colored School, is a historic school building for African-American children located at Edisto Island, Charleston County, South Carolina. It was built about 1931, and is a one-story, two-room, rectangular frame building.”
Wikipedia article Seaside School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 227 National Register listings published here for Charleston 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. 1097 SC 174, Edisto Island, 29438
When was it listed? June 1994
Category. building
Census division. Edisto Island
National Register reference number. 94000602 - 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

58 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Seaside School between 1992 and 2019, burning about 441 acres in total. None started naturally. 15 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	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Arson/incendiarism	15
Equipment and vehicle use	3
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
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
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
21 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 June 2001	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 June 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 June 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	60 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Charleston 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 Seaside School: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Zirconium, Iron. 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
	Edisto Island Quadrangle	Titanium, Zirconium, Iron	Unknown	Placer , Modern , Beach

Every working recorded in Charleston 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
Bailey's Store	0.9 miles	1986
Wescott Road	1.1 miles	1986
Alexander Bache U.S. Coast Survey Line	1.2 miles	2007
Crawford's Plantation House	1.5 miles	1993
Sunnyside Plantation Foreman's House (Boundary Increase)	1.5 miles	1994
Trinity Episcopal Church	1.5 miles	1971

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94000602 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.
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.