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Photograph of Dillon Downtown Historic District
Photograph by Bill Fitzpatrick, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Dillon Downtown Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

“Dillon Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Dillon, Dillon County, South Carolina. The district encompasses 66 contributing buildings in the central business district of Latta.”

Wikipedia article Dillon Downtown Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Dillon County · listed in 2003 · category: District.

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

The listing

Fires near this property

401 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 401 fires within 5 miles of Dillon Downtown Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,461 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 86 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/undetermined137
Debris and open burning107
Arson/incendiarism86
Equipment and vehicle use26
Misuse of fire by a minor21
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony5
Other causes4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Natural3
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2018Other causes3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Dillon County

Storms near this property

45 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dillon, the town this property stands in, in 45 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 31 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2023Thunderstorm WindDillon1 hurtSeveral trees down on W. Main St. in Dillon. A man was pinned under tree limbs and was taken to the hospital.
July 1996Thunderstorm WindDillon$300,000no account filed
October 2016Flash FloodDillon$250,000A portion of Mt Calvary Road was closed due to flood waters. Adjacent structures were impacted by the flood waters. The time was estimated.
September 2004Tornado (F0)Dillon$100,000A tornado flattened and old barn and part of the roof of a shed was torn off. A few trees were snapped...one damaging a roof of a home.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindDillon$15,000Powerlines, road signs and trees blown down by thunderstorm winds. One house damaged falling tree.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindDillon$10,000Large tree fell on a house.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindDillon$5,000no account filed
April 2011Thunderstorm WindDillon$3,000A large tree was reportedly down on a house on East Jefferson Street.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindDillon$2,000A tree was reportedly down on a parked car on Lauren Avenue.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindDillon$2,000Trees were reported down on Radford Boulevard.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindDillon$2,000Thunderstorm Winds damaged trees and snapped a railroad crossing barrier.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindDillon$1,500A tree was reportedly down on Interstate 95 at mile marker 191. The time was estimated based on radar data.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindDillon$1,000A tree was blown down on Hopkins Road.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindDillon$1,000A tree was reported down along Interstate 95.
January 2024Thunderstorm WindDillon-There were numerous reports of trees down in the Dillon area.
April 2011Funnel CloudDillon-The public reported a funnel cloud near the Little Pee Dee River.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindDillon-Power lines were reported down on E Cleveland Street and N 4th Avenue. The Report was relayed via Dillon County 911 Center.
March 2008HailDillon-Hail up to the size of golf balls reported by law enforcement through the 911 Center.
March 2008Thunderstorm WindDillon-Law enforcement reported numerous trees down in and near Dillon. Some trees were down on houses and across powerlines. Some of the trees were blocking roadways.
May 2008HailDillon-Hail up to the size of pennies was reported.
May 2008HailDillon-Nickel size hail was reported by the public. Time was estimated based on radar.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindDillon-Trees were reported down.
June 2007HailDillon-Nickel size hail destroyed 90 acres of cotton near the intersection of SR 34 and Harley Bridge Rd. Penny size hail was also reported across town.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindDillon-Trees down on Cedar Street. Isolated downed trees were observed across the county.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindDillon-Downed trees reported in uptown Dillon and on Hwy 9.
May 2006HailDillon-Nickel size hail fell at a farm supply store.
March 2005Thunderstorm WindDillon-Dillon 911 reported trees down on Hwy 38 near Oak Grove.
February 2003Thunderstorm WindDillon-Dillon 911 reported trees down on power lines.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindDillon-The Dillon county 911 center reported numerous trees down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindDillon-Dillon 911 reported three trees down.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindDillon-Dillon 911 reported trees down.
August 2002HailDillon-Dime size hail reported.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindDillon-Public reported trees down across the road at the Lake View Millpond.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindDillon-Dillon county sheriff reported two large trees down...one on Countryside Rd. and the other on Interstate 95.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindDillon-One large tree down.
April 2000Thunderstorm WindDillon-Sherriff reported a tree down across SC Hwy 57.
April 2000HailDillon-911 operator reported numerous reports of dime size hail in the town of Dillon.
July 2000HailDillon-911 center reported quarter size hail.
July 2000HailDillon-911 center reported dime size hail.
August 1999Thunderstorm WindDillon-A tree was downed along Highway SC 34.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindDillon-Several tree limbs down and power outages in rural areas.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindDillon-A tree with a 24-inch diameter trunk crashed into the roof of a house.
May 1999HailDillon-no account filed
May 1999Thunderstorm WindDillon-no account filed
May 1996HailDillon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dillon County

Newspapers printed here

3,089 digitised pages

1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 365 issues, 3,089 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

NewspaperPublished
The Dillon Herald1894 to ????

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 01001549 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dillon CountyAll 20 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.
  • 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.