Woodson Farmstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“Woodson Farmstead was a historic agricultural property located off of Three Bridges Road near the intersection of South Carolina Highway 153 in Powdersville, South Carolina. It consisted of an early twentieth century fruit and pecan grove, a ca. 1875 well house and cotton house and a farmhouse built in 1895.”
Wikipedia article Woodson Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Anderson County · listed in 1998 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. 3 Powdersville Rd., Greenville, 29611
When was it listed? April 1998
Category. building
Census division. Powdersville-Piedmont
National Register reference number. 98000422 - 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

130 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Woodson Farmstead between 1992 and 2020, burning about 443 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 16 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	48
Debris and open burning	33
Arson/incendiarism	16
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Smoking	3
Other causes	2
Natural	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
6 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2008	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2008	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Anderson County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Woodson Farmstead: 3 prospects, 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Vulcan Materials Co. S. Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
B E Woodson Prospect	Mica	Prospect
Boling Mine	Mica	Past Producer
C H Ellis Prospect	Mica	Prospect
G F Fuller Deposit	Mica	Occurrence
R S Berry Prospect	Mica	Prospect

Every working recorded in Anderson 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000422 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Anderson County	All 26 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.