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Photograph by Jud McCranie, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

John Lawton House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

“John Lawton House is a historic home located at Estill, Hampton County, South Carolina. It was built in 1908, and consists of a two-story, wood frame, side-gabled main block with wings and an asymmetrical rear ell.”

Wikipedia article John Lawton House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Hampton County · listed in 2009 · 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.
  • Listed as. Lawton, John, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 118 3rd. St., Estill, 29918
  • When was it listed? July 2009
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Estill
  • Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture, Neoclassical architecture
  • National Register reference number. 09000484 - 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

300 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 300 fires within 5 miles of John Lawton House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 931 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 66 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 burning117
Missing data/not specified/undetermined83
Arson/incendiarism66
Equipment and vehicle use15
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Natural5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

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 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2006Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2019Debris and open burning10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2005Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Hampton County

Storms near this property

23 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Estill, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 19 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2012Thunderstorm WindEstill$15,000The Hampton County warning point reported trees and powerlines were blown down throughout the city of Estill. Some streets impacted by fallen trees include 3rd Street...Wyman Blvd...Applebee Street and Morrison Avenue South. The entire city was without power.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindEstill$5,000Law Enforcement reported trees down along Highway 601 in Estill, South Carolina.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindEstill$5,000Power lines down near intersection of Highway 321 and 5th St. in Estill.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindEstill$5,000Power outages.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindEstill$4,000A trained weather spotter reported several trees of small to medium size down near Estill, South Carolina.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindEstill$2,000Trees were reported down in Estill, South Carolina.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindEstill$1,500A spotter reported a tree down on a power line .2 mile south of Estill.
October 2011Thunderstorm WindEstill$500Law enforcement reported 1 tree down on Highway 3 in Estill, South Carolina.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindEstill$500One tree was reported down across a road in Estill, South Carolina.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindEstill-The Hampton County 911 Call Center reported multiple trees down along Highway 321 just outside of Estill.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindEstill-Hampton County dispatch reported several trees down west of Estill. This includes Harper Road, Orangeburg Road, Nixville Road, and Matthews Bluff.
May 2020HailEstill-The public reported baseball sized hail at the corner of 4th Street and Lawton Avenue in Estill. The report was relayed via pictures on social media.
March 2019Thunderstorm WindEstill-South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down on Old Orangeburg Road near Goodwill Road.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindEstill-Law enforcement reported several trees blown down on roadways around Estill, including Lawton Avenue, Daily Road and Third Street.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindEstill-An emergency manager relayed a report of two large trees down on Lawton Avenue.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindEstill-Hampton County dispatch reported multiple trees down along Columbia Highway near Estill.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindEstill-The Hampton County 911 Call Center reported a large tree limb down at 3rd Street and Catherine Street.
July 2013Flash FloodEstill-Five roads in Estill were reported closed due to flash flooding.
April 2005Thunderstorm WindEstill-Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees. Nickel size hail fell near Estill.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindEstill-Trees reported down on Hopewell Rd.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindEstill-Powerlines down.
May 2006HailEstill-no account filed
June 2000HailEstill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hampton 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Lawtonville Baptist Church0.2 miles2012
Church of the Heavenly Rest5.1 miles2026
Gifford Rosenwald School7.5 miles2017
Hampton County Courthouse7.8 miles1978

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 09000484 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hampton CountyAll 16 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.