McLeod Farmstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“McLeod Farmstead, also known as Rest Park Tract and Seabrook Farms, is a historic farmstead and national historic district located at Seabrook, Beaufort County, South Carolina. The district encompasses 12 contributing building and 2 contributing structures, and is representative of the truck farming economy that spread through the region between 1884 and 1946.”
Wikipedia article McLeod Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 62 National Register listings published here for Beaufort 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. Seabrook Rd. 1 mi. W of SC 21 and 10 mi. N of Beaufort, Seabrook, 29940
When was it listed? July 1997
Category. district
Census division. Beaufort-Port Royal
National Register reference number. 97000776 - 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

268 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 268 fires within 5 miles of McLeod Farmstead between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,177 acres in total. None started naturally. 84 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	90
Debris and open burning	85
Arson/incendiarism	84
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
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
17 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 July 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 July 2000	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
22 July 2007	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
13 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
13 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 June 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Beaufort 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 McLeod Farmstead: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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
	Coosawhatchee Region Deposits	Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer	1963

Every working 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

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
	Little Barnwell Island	2.3 miles	1973
	Sheldon Church Ruins	7.0 miles	1970

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97000776 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.
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.