James Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“James Building, also known as Summerton Hardware and Summerton Hardware Company, is a historic commercial building located at Summerton, Clarendon County, South Carolina. It was built in 1905, and is a two-story brick building with a cast-iron storefront.”
Wikipedia article James Building (Summerton, South Carolina), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Clarendon County · listed in 2007 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 124-126 Main St., Summerton, 29148
When was it listed? March 2007
Category. building
Census division. Summerton
National Register reference number. 07000222 - 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

683 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 683 fires within 5 miles of James Building between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,060 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 164 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	272
Debris and open burning	206
Arson/incendiarism	164
Equipment and vehicle use	24
Smoking	5
Natural	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Other causes	1
Fireworks	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
8 September 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2011	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Clarendon County

Storms near this property

53 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Summerton, the town this property stands in, in 53 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 32 thunderstorm wind, 19 hail, 1 tornado, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death. 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 2000	Lightning	Summerton	1 killed	Lightning struck a tree and vehicle parked under it. One man was killed when he was getting out of the vehicle during the incident.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerton	$160,000	Black River Electric Coop reported trees and powerlines down in Summerton.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerton	$16,000	Black River Electric Coop reported trees and powerlines down in Summerton.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerton	$7,000	Powerlines down and outages in and around Summerton.
May 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerton	$4,000	County dispatch reported trees down on powerlines on Mood St. in Summerton.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerton	$4,000	DOT reported several trees down in the Summerton area.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerton	$3,000	Highway Patrol reported trees down near mile markers 108 and 110 on I-95.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerton	$3,000	Dispatch reported a couple of trees down on I-95 south at mile marker 109 and DOT reported a couple of trees down on Malin Drive in Summerton.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerton	$2,000	Sheriff reports trees down on Bingle Pond Road.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerton	$2,000	DOT reported trees down east of Summerton on SC Hwys 40, 64, and 226.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerton	$1,000	Sheriff reported medium to large limbs down on Jacks Creek Road.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerton	-	Clarendon dispatch reported a tree downed blocking the roadway on South Cantey St. in Summerton. Time estimated by radar.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerton	-	Spotter reported trees down on his property. Time estimated by radar.
January 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerton	-	A tree was downed onto the roadway near 2697 Governor Richardson Rd in Summerton. \| Time estimated.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerton	-	SC Highway Patrol reported a tree down in roadway on I-95, east of Summerton. Time estimated by radar.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerton	-	Clarendon County 911 Dispatch reports multiple trees down just outside Summerton.
July 2015	Hail	Summerton	-	Public reported penny size hail around Summerton. The fire department also estimated wind gusts of 45mph.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerton	-	Highway Patrol reported trees down along I-95 between mile markers 107 and 109.
April 2011	Hail	Summerton	-	Sheriff reported 1 inchf hail on Furse Road.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerton	-	Public reported large branches down in and around Summerton.
June 2008	Hail	Summerton	-	Public reported penny size hail in the Summerton area.
June 2008	Hail	Summerton	-	Carolina King Park reported penny size hail.
March 2008	Hail	Summerton	-	Sheriff reported nickel size hail on Governors Richardson road.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerton	-	Sheriff reported several trees down on I-95 from Summerton to Manning.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerton	-	Highway dept reported a few trees down on hwy 403 just off I-95.
June 2007	Hail	Summerton	-	Post Office reported nickel size hail which started to cover the ground.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerton	-	EM reported powerlines down in Summerton.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerton	-	Black River Electric Coop reported trees down at Jacks Creek Marina.
April 2006	Hail	Summerton	-	Marina reported nickel size hail.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerton	-	Sheriff reported a few trees down on Rogers road.
May 2006	Hail	Summerton	-	Public reported 1 inch hail.
June 2006	Hail	Summerton	-	Panola Recycling Center reported 3/4 inch hail.
March 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerton	-	City police reported several trees down.
October 2005	Hail	Summerton	-	Sheriff reported golf ball size hail in Summerton.
June 2004	Hail	Summerton	-	Goat Island Resort reported 3/4 inch hail.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerton	-	Goat Is. Resort reported several trees down in the area and very heavy rain.
May 2003	Hail	Summerton	-	Emergency manager reported 3/4 inch hail in Summerton.
October 2003	Hail	Summerton	-	Polly's Landing Marina reported 3/4 inch hail.
July 2002	Hail	Summerton	-	Sheriff reported 3/4 inch hail in Summerton.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerton	-	Sheriff reported trees down.
February 1999	Hail	Summerton	-	City police reported 1 inch hail.
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerton	-	Highway Dept. reported a couple of trees down on highways.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerton	-	EPD reported pontoon boat destroyed and one blown across bay at Camp Bob Cooper.
June 1998	Hail	Summerton	-	Sheriff reported 3/4 inch hail.
May 1998	Hail	Summerton	-	Spotter reported 3/4 inch hail at Jack's Creek Marina.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerton	-	Summerton Police reported trees down on Francis Marion road.
July 1997	Hail	Summerton	-	Police report quarter size hail along I-95.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerton	-	Police report trees down along route 102.
November 1995	Tornado	Summerton	-	Tornado touched down in a grove of trees and took them down.
November 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerton	-	Power lines down from thunderstorm winds.
June 1996	Hail	Summerton	-	no account filed
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerton	-	no account filed
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clarendon 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

4 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Senn's Grist Mill-Blacksmith Shop-Orange Crush Bottling Plant	under 500 feet	2000
Summerton High School	0.4 miles	1994
Scott's Branch High School	0.5 miles	2023
Davis House	7.8 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000222 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clarendon County	All 10 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.