Seaboard Air Line Railway Depot in McBee

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“Seaboard Air Line Railway Depot in McBee is a historic train station located at McBee, Chesterfield County, South Carolina. It was built in 1914, and is a one-story, red brick building in a modified rectangular plan.”
Wikipedia article McBee station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Chesterfield County · listed in 1999 · 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. W. Pine Ave., NW of jct. of SC 151 and US 1, McBee, 29101
When was it listed? September 1999
Category. building
Census division. McBee
National Register reference number. 99000103 - 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

190 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 190 fires within 5 miles of Seaboard Air Line Railway Depot in McBee between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,379 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 11 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	74
Debris and open burning	50
Natural	24
Arson/incendiarism	11
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	7
Recreation and ceremony	7
Smoking	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Other causes	1
Fireworks	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
3 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.8 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2019	Natural	105 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	OVERFLOW ROAD FIRE
12 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2002	Debris and open burning	12 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 2015	Other causes	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 August 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Chesterfield County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Seaboard Air Line Railway Depot in McBee: 2 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, Clay, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Barbour Prospect	Iron, Manganese	Prospect
Unidentified Clay Mine	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Unidentified Sand Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Chesterfield 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 99000103 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chesterfield County	All 9 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.