Photograph of St. Philip's Episcopal Church — Photograph by Batterup55, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

St. Philip's Episcopal Church, Bradford Springs

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“Philip's Episcopal Church is an historic Episcopal church located in the High Hills of Santee, in the antebellum summer resort community of Bradford Springs in Lee County, South Carolina, about six miles north of Dalzell.”
Wikipedia article St. Philip's Episcopal Church (Bradford Springs, South Carolina), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Lee County · listed in 1996 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. Bradford Springs Rd., approximately 6 mi. N of Dalzell, Dalzell, 29040
When was it listed? April 1996
Category. building
Census division. Ashwood
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 96000406 - 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

332 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 332 fires within 5 miles of St. Philip's Episcopal Church, Bradford Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,346 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 35 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	165
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	92
Arson/incendiarism	35
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Smoking	5
Natural	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Other causes	4
Fireworks	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 2002	Smoking	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2007	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2009	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2019	Natural	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Lee 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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Rembert Church	4.1 miles	1975
	Ashwood School Gymnasium and Auditorium	6.2 miles	2011

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96000406 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lee County	All 18 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.