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Photograph of Lenoir Store
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Lenoir Store

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“The Lenoir Store built in 1869 is an American historic general store building located in the High Hills of Santee community of Horatio, South Carolina. It stands on the same site where the Lenoir family has operated a general store since before 1808 and "is the oldest business establishment in Sumter County".”

Wikipedia article Lenoir Store, 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.
  • Address. 3240 Horatio Rd., Horatio, 29062
  • When was it listed? July 1997
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Shaw AFB-Horatio
  • National Register reference number. 97000744 - 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

233 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 233 fires within 5 miles of Lenoir Store between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,240 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 17 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 burning111
Missing data/not specified/undetermined72
Arson/incendiarism17
Equipment and vehicle use10
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Smoking6
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2000Debris and open burning4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2005Arson/incendiarism15 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2007Debris and open burning2.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Debris and open burning40 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Sumter County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Lenoir Store: 6 unknowns, 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Zirconium, Thorium, Titanium, Titanium, Thorium, Iron, Zirconium, Zirconium, Iron, Thorium, Titanium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Becker Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, Construction, Zirconium, Iron, Thorium, TitaniumUnknownTailings
Gum SwampTitanium, Thorium, Iron, ZirconiumUnknownPlacer , Modern , Fluvial
Unidentified MineClayUnknownSedimentary
HoratioIron, Zirconium, Thorium, TitaniumUnknownPlacer , Modern , Fluvial
Sumters LandingIron, Zirconium, Thorium, TitaniumUnknownPlacer , Modern , Fluvial
Becker PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownSedimentary
Becker PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hagood Sand - Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
HoratioSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Sumter County

Storms near this property

13 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Horatio, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2010Thunderstorm WindHoratio$8,000Sheriff reported numerous trees down northwest to southwest of Sumter. Trees were down near the community of Stateburg around the intersection of Hwy 378 and State Hwy 261. Other trees were down near Nettles and Ramsey roads.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindHoratio$6,000Highway Patrol reported trees down along Hwy 261 from Scales Road to Horatio Road.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindHoratio$6,000Highway Patrol reported trees down along Hwy 261 and Catchall Road.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindHoratio$4,000Black River Electric Coop reported trees and powerlines down on Moody road near Rembert.
April 2023HailHoratio$100Trained spotter reported pea size hail at Carryall Cir and Hwy 261. Time estimated.
June 2023HailHoratio$100Trained spotter on Carryall Cir in Dalzell reported several minutes of pea size hail.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindHoratio-Spotter reports a small tree down across SC 261 near Dalzell, SC.
May 2024HailHoratio-Trained spotter reported penny size hail at his location.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindHoratio-Spotter reported power lines down, large trees down, and a pecan tree uprooted.
April 2023HailHoratio-Trained spotter reported penny size hail on Carryall Cir near Hwy 261.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindHoratio-SCHP reported tree in roadway at SC Hwy 261 (N Kings Hwy) and Fish Rd. Time estimated.
March 2018Thunderstorm WindHoratio-SCHP reported tree in roadway on Charles Miller Rd and Sumters Landing Rd.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindHoratio-SC Highway Patrol reported trees down on Hwy 261 and Fish Rd.

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

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Magnolia Hall2.4 miles1999
Ellerbe's Mill4.0 miles1974
Stateburg Historic District4.7 miles1971
Borough House Plantation5.1 miles1972
Holy Cross Episcopal Church5.1 miles1973
Orange Grove7.7 miles1993

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 97000744 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sumter CountyAll 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.
  • 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.