Willow Consolidated High School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

From the record

“Willow Consolidated High School, also known as Norway Junior High School and Norway Middle School, is a historic high school building located at Norway, Orangeburg County, South Carolina. It was built in 1926, and is a one-story, T-shaped brick veneer building with an auditorium located at the rear.”
Wikipedia article Willow Consolidated High School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 42 National Register listings published here for Orangeburg County · listed in 2006 · 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 2750 Cope Rd., Norway, 29113
When was it listed? July 2006
Category. building
Census division. Norway
National Register reference number. 06000581 - 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

181 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 181 fires within 5 miles of Willow Consolidated High School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 920 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 32 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	71
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	38
Arson/incendiarism	32
Equipment and vehicle use	25
Smoking	6
Natural	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Recreation and ceremony	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 2014	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2004	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2011	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2019	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
13 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Orangeburg County

Storms near this property

23 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Norway, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 17 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Norway	$5,000	Sheriff reported trees and powerlines down at Savannah Hwy and Willow Swamp road.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Norway	$2,000	EM reported a few trees down in Norway.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Norway	$1,000	Sheriff reported a tree and other large brances down on US 321 and Bonnette road.
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Norway	$1,000	Several large trees blown down across highway.
November 2024	Flash Flood	Norway	-	SCDPS website reported flooding on Willow Swamp Road between Sams Rd. and Commercial Blvd. with water from an adjacent retention pond likely overflowing onto road.
November 2024	Flash Flood	Norway	-	Orangeburg County and SC state officials confirmed a breach of Pardees Pond dam. No damage was reported as a result of the breach.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Norway	-	Tree down on S Willow Rd. Time estimated.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Norway	-	SCHP reported trees down at Middle Willow Rd and Norway Rd, and at Saxton Ave and Seventh St in Norway. Time estimated.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Norway	-	DOT reported a large tree down on Farmhill Rd near Norway. Time estimated.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Norway	-	Tree in roadway at the intersection of Willow Swamp Rd and Herbert Rd. Time estimated.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Norway	-	Tree in roadway at Wire Rd and SC 332. Time estimated.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Norway	-	Tree in roadway at Bonnette Rd and SC 332. Time estimated.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Norway	-	Multiple trees were downed on Levi Pond Rd in the town of Neeses. Time estimated.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Norway	-	Public reported pecan trees down and metal siding ripped from a home.
June 2008	Hail	Norway	-	Public reported penny size hail.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Norway	-	Kountryside Golf Club reported large branches down on the course.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Norway	-	Sheriff Dispatch reported trees down in the town of Norway.
May 2005	Hail	Norway	-	Public reported 1 inch hail east of Norway.
May 2005	Hail	Norway	-	Public reported quarter size hail.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Norway	-	EPD reported trees down on highway 321.
June 1998	Lightning	Norway	-	EPD reported lighting started a fire that destroyed the Highway 321 Truck and Auto Service Center.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Norway	-	County EPD reported trees and powerlines down along highway 321.
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Norway	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Orangeburg 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.

Listed places nearby

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Springfield High School	7.6 miles	2001

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06000581 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Orangeburg County	All 42 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.