Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
From the record
“Charlton Hall Plantation House is a historic plantation house located near Hickory Tavern, Laurens County, South Carolina. It was built about 1847, and is a two-story, three bay brick residence in the Greek Revival style.”
Wikipedia article Charlton Hall Plantation House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 26 National Register listings published here for Laurens County · listed in 1995 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.95000633- 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
131 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 131 fires within 5 miles of Charlton Hall Plantation House
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 588 acres in total. 3 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
64
Debris and open burning
31
Arson/incendiarism
11
Equipment and vehicle use
7
Misuse of fire by a minor
6
Smoking
5
Natural
3
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
Other causes
1
Recreation and ceremony
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
4 workings within 5 miles of Charlton Hall Plantation House: 3 past producers, 1 unknown.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Thorium, Titanium, Zirconium, Marble, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Hickory Tavern, the town this property stands in, in 39 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 20 thunderstorm wind, 15 hail, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood.
The reports record 1 death. 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.
NWS storm survey determined that a tornado touched down in northwest Laurens County, just west of Fairview Rd and traveled east/northeast toward Barnyard Rd. Numerous trees were snapped or uprooted along this segment of the path, and a couple of large trees fell on and damaged a home on Barnyard Ct. The tornado continued E/NE, downing additional trees as it crossed Deck Rd and Greenpond Rd. The path became more intermittent at that point until it approached the town of Gray Court, where tree damage again became more concentrated. The tornado continued E/NE of Gray Court, mostly remaining to the south of, but roughly paralleling Highway 92 until crossing Highway 221. The tornado then crossed the Enoree River into Spartanburg County about 1.5 miles southeast of the town of Enoree. Dozens of large trees were snapped or uprooted in the area between Gray Court and the county line.
A small area of tornado damage occurred along Greenpond Rd near its intersection with Shiloh Church Rd. A chimney was blown off a house that also had several windows blown out. The house also received significant roof damage. A mobile home in the same area also received significant roof damage and was shifted off its foundation by about 20 degrees.
Public reported multiple trees blown down from west of Laurens to at least the west side of the city. One tree fell on an outbuilding, while the roof of at least one structure was damaged. Other downed trees were reported in other parts of the county.
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.
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.
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