Goodwill Parochial School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“Goodwill Parochial School, also known as Goodwill Day School, was a parochial school for African American children located near Mayesville, Sumter County, South Carolina. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.”
Wikipedia article Goodwill Parochial School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 28 National Register listings published here for Sumter County · listed in 1997 · 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.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. 295 N. Brick Church Rd., Mayesville, 29104
When was it listed? May 1997
Category. building
Census division. Shiloh
National Register reference number. 97000523 - 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

265 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 265 fires within 5 miles of Goodwill Parochial School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,033 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 48 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	100
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	97
Arson/incendiarism	48
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Smoking	4
Natural	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
30 September 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2001	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	9.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Sumter County

Storms near this property

15 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mayesville, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flash flood. 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
November 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayesville	$10,000	Black River Electric Coop reported large limbs and some powerlines down.
January 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayesville	$5,000	,,,,,,,,Flooding Trees and power lines down, streets in low areas flooded.
September 2015	Flash Flood	Mayesville	$4,000	Sumter County Dispatch reported flooding on Lafayette Street, Calhoun Road, and Broad Street. Several rural roads in the area were also flooded and temporarily closed.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayesville	$2,000	Post Office reported large limbs and a few trees down in the area of McKnight and Atkins roads.
September 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayesville	$2,000	Public reported large limbs down and minor damage to a mobile home.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayesville	-	Public reported through social media that a couple of pecan trees were downed, two irrigation pivot systems overturned, damage to a roll up door, and a lot of wheat flattened near the Town of Mayesville.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayesville	-	SCDOT reported tree down near Mayesville. Exact location unknown. Time estimated.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayesville	-	Trees down on power lines near Mayesville.
April 2006	Hail	Mayesville	-	Post Office employee reported quarter size hail
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayesville	-	County Hwy Dept reported tree down across road
May 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayesville	-	Post Office reported large branches down in and around Mayesville.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayesville	-	Black River coop reported trees down on powerlines with power outages.
May 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayesville	-	Electric coop reported trees down on powerlines with power outages.
August 2004	Flash Flood	Mayesville	-	Heavy rains from Tropical Storm Gaston caused several rural roads to flood and be temporarilly closed in the eastern part of the county.
June 1996	Hail	Mayesville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sumter 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

3 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
Rip Raps Plantation	0.9 miles	1978
Salem Black River Presbyterian Church	1.6 miles	1978
Mayesville Historic District	6.2 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97000523 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sumter County	All 28 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.
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.