John P. Derham House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“Derham House, also known as Loughrea Plantation, is a historic home located at Green Sea in Horry County, South Carolina. It was built about 1900 and is representative of the Victorian Eclectic style.”
Wikipedia article John P. Derham House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Horry County · listed in 2005 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Listed as. Derham, John P., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1076 Green Sea Rd., Green Sea, 29545
When was it listed? October 2005
Category. building
Census division. Loris
National Register reference number. 05001154 - 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

220 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 220 fires within 5 miles of John P. Derham House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,156 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 60 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
Debris and open burning	95
Arson/incendiarism	60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	54
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Natural	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	2

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
8 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2007	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2005	Debris and open burning	17 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Horry County

Storms near this property

24 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Green Sea, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 11 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 1 death and 7 injuries. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
September 2018	Flash Flood	Green Sea	1 killed, $10,000	Hwy 646 closed due to flooding. A man's vehicle was swept off the roadway and he drowned.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Green Sea	7 hurt, $1,000,000	A storm survey concluded that the damage examined was the result of straight line winds. A north-south swath of damage was found crossing SC Highway 9 near Duford. Damage was mainly in the form of large snapped trees and peeled off metal roofing from sheds and barns. Damage was also scattered from just north of S.R. 9 from Mount Olive Church Road to Bay View Drive. Considerable damage occurred at Green Sea Floyds High School including minor roof damage, a downed light pole, damage to a tennis court fence, broken windows, several trees down and a well constructed football scoreboard was blown over. An 18 wheel tractor trailer was overturned on SC Highway 9. Winds were estimated between 60 and 90 mph. A small area of more concentrated damage occurred along Mount Olive Church Road between Billy MC Road and Fairview Highway. At this location, a mobile home was completely destroyed and seven occupants in this home suffered minor injuries and were taken to the local hospital. Large trees 3-4 ft diameter were snapped and uprooted. Wind speeds with this damage were estimated between 95 and 109 mph. Two firefighters were injured when their firetruck ran over a downed tree in the road. All of the damage observed was aligned from north-northwest to south-southeast. About 10,000 people lost power.
July 2017	Flash Flood	Green Sea	$15,000	Eighteen inches of water was reportedly flowing across Green Sea Rd. near the intersection with Fair Bluff Hwy. This stretch of roadway was reported impassable.
April 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Green Sea	$10,000	Public reported large hail of unknown size that damaged vehicle windows.
August 2020	Lightning	Green Sea	$5,000	Lightning caused a tree and an outbuilding to catch fire in the 5300 Block of Hwy 9.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Green Sea	$2,000	Two trees were reported down near the intersection of Decatur Road and Audie Road.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Green Sea	$1,000	A tree was reportedly down on Mt. Zion Road.
May 2012	Hail	Green Sea	$1,000	Hail to the size of quarters was reported. The hail lasted for about 5 minutes.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Green Sea	-	SC Highway Patrol reports tree down on Green Sea Rd near Church Rd.
April 2022	Hail	Green Sea	-	Golf ball size hail near Loris, SC.
April 2022	Hail	Green Sea	-	Golf ball to baseball sized hail produced minor damage to side of house between Loris and Green Sea, SC.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Green Sea	-	Trees down in northern Horry County.
February 2020	Flash Flood	Green Sea	-	EMS reported that four people and dogs were rescued from their residence, and were told not to return until the water recedes.
June 2008	Hail	Green Sea	-	Hail the size of pennies was reported.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Green Sea	-	Spotter estimated a wind gust to 60 mph in Duford.
May 2006	Hail	Green Sea	-	Ping pong size hail accumulated to a depth of four inches.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Green Sea	-	Numerous trees were blown down, blocking many roads, leading to road closures.
August 2005	Funnel Cloud	Green Sea	-	Public reported a funnel cloud at Hwy 904 and Green Sea Road near the state line. Horry county emergency management investigated and found no damage.
May 2003	Hail	Green Sea	-	911 center reported half dollar size hail in Mt. Olive.
May 2001	Hail	Green Sea	-	Nickel size hail was reported to have caused crop damage. The damage amount is unknown.
June 2000	Hail	Green Sea	-	Spotter reported nickel size hail.
May 1999	Hail	Green Sea	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Green Sea	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Green Sea	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Horry 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 05001154 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Horry County	All 38 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.