Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
From the record
“Camp Ground, is a historic African Methodist Episcopal camp meeting and national historic district located near Harleyville, Dorchester County, South Carolina. It was established about 1880, and the buildings and grounds are used for one week each year.”
Wikipedia article St. Paul Camp Ground, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 10 National Register listings published here for Dorchester County · listed in 1998 · category: District.
National Register reference number.98000424- 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
243 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 243 fires within 5 miles of St. Paul Camp Ground
between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,526 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 41 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
102
Debris and open burning
85
Arson/incendiarism
41
Equipment and vehicle use
8
Misuse of fire by a minor
4
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Smoking
1
Natural
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
6 workings within 5 miles of St. Paul Camp Ground: 4 producers, 2 unknowns.
4 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Clay, Cement Rock, Clay, Limestone, General, Cement Rock. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Harleyville, the town this property stands in, in 38 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 25 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 tornado.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
Dorchester County Emergency Management provided pictures of wind damage near the 100 block of Mockingbird Drive. The pictures indicated one snapped tree with multiple large tree limbs down.
There were several reports of hail quarter sized or greater in Harleyville. The largest hail was estimated by the public to be ping pong ball sized, other reports were quarter sized from local law enforcement.
Front porch torn off of a mobile home, one automobile damaged from pieces of the wood from the porch, underskirting damaged on 3 mobile homes and a few shingles taken off a house.
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.
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.
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