Knights of Wise Men Lodge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“Knights of Wise Men Lodge is a historic clubhouse located on Saint Helena Island near Frogmore, Beaufort County, South Carolina. It was built about 1942, and is a simple, two-story, rectangular cinder block building with a gabled roof.”
Wikipedia article Knights of Wise Men Lodge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 62 National Register listings published here for Beaufort 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 listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Martin Luther King Dr., S of Jct. of Martin Luther King Dr. and US 21, St. Helena Island, 29920
When was it listed? April 1996
Category. building
Also known as. Historic Resources of St. Helena Island c. 1740-c. 1935 MPS
Census division. St. Helena Island
National Register reference number. 96000408 - 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

159 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 159 fires within 5 miles of Knights of Wise Men Lodge between 1993 and 2020, burning about 832 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 37 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	86
Arson/incendiarism	37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	27
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
7 September 1997	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2019	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2019	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 2013	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Beaufort 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
Dr. York Bailey House	0.5 miles	1988
Corner Packing Shed, The	0.6 miles	1988
Green, The	0.6 miles	1988
Brick Church	0.7 miles	1974
Emanuel Alston House	0.7 miles	1988
Corner Store and Office, The	0.7 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96000408 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Beaufort County	All 62 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.