Manship Farmstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“Manship Farmstead is a historic farmstead and national historic district located near Tatum, Marlboro County, South Carolina. The district encompasses seven contributing buildings, one contributing site, and one contributing object in an early 20th century agricultural complex.”
Wikipedia article Manship Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Marlboro County · listed in 1997 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. 2601 Manship Rd., Tatum, 29512
When was it listed? June 1997
Category. district
Census division. McColl
National Register reference number. 97000540 - 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

314 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 314 fires within 5 miles of Manship Farmstead between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,031 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 70 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	103
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	95
Arson/incendiarism	70
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Misuse of fire by a minor	11
Smoking	8
Natural	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
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
8 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	North Carolina Forest Service	A MESS
3 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	North Carolina Forest Service	ROSS STREET
22 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Marlboro 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 Manship Farmstead: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Unnamed Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Marlboro County

Storms near this property

8 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tatum, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2012 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 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
January 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Tatum	$6,000	Three power poles snapped along Mt. Zion church road near Tatum.
August 2024	Flash Flood	Tatum	$1,000	Flooding on Hwy 401 and Hinson Farm Road.
May 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Tatum	$1,000	A tree was blown down on Sandy Grove Rd and Hebron Dunbar Rd.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Tatum	$1,000	A large tree was in the roadway.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Tatum	$1,000	Trees down near Bennettsville.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Tatum	$1,000	A large tree was reported down near the intersection of Mt Zion Church Road and U.S. 15.
April 2012	Hail	Tatum	$1,000	Hail to the size of quarters was reported.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Tatum	$1,000	A tree was reported down on Adamsville Road at U.S. 15. The time was estimated based on radar data.

Every storm recorded in Marlboro 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
McLaurin-Roper-McColl Farmstead	3.5 miles	2012
Magnolia	5.3 miles	1973
Bennettsville Historic District	5.7 miles	1978
Bennettsville Historic District (Boundary Increase)	5.7 miles	1993
Clio Historic District	6.2 miles	1979
Jennings-Brown House	6.3 miles	1972

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97000540 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Marlboro County	All 13 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.
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.