Epps-McGill Farmhouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.

From the record

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Williamsburg County · listed in 2020 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. 679 Eastland Ave., Kingstree, 29556
When was it listed? September 2020
Category. building
Census division. Kingstree
National Register reference number. 100005612 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

820 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 820 fires within 5 miles of Epps-McGill Farmhouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,607 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 194 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	326
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	260
Arson/incendiarism	194
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Smoking	8
Natural	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
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
9 September 2018	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1997	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	GAUSETOWN
26 September 1998	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Williamsburg County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Epps-McGill Farmhouse: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Unnamed Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
McKenzie Pit # 2	Sand	Producer	Sedimentary
McKenzie Pit # 2	Sand	Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Williamsburg County

Storms near this property

35 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kingstree, the town this property stands in, in 35 storm reports between 1995 and 2017: 15 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 flood. The reports record 15 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
November 1995	Tornado (F1)	Kingstree	11 hurt, $350,000	Two tornado touchdowns destroyed a laundromat and downed trees onto homes.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingstree	4 hurt, $85,000	A NWS storm survey concluded a downburst rolled a manufactured home (that was not tied down) 75 feet over a car and into a ditch. Four people were in the home and were treated for minor injuries.
October 2015	Flood	Kingstree	$8,000,000	Around 10 to 15 inches of rain fell over a three day period, causing the Black River at Kingstree to rise to a major flood. The river crested at 22.65 feet, beating the previous record crest in 1973 by nearly three feet. Several hundred homes were evacuated due to inundation. The town of Quinby had moderate flooding.
October 2015	Flash Flood	Kingstree	$500,000	Numerous streets and adjacent property was reported flooded in Kingstree to include Main Street.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingstree	$50,000	A storm survey concluded straight line winds peeled back the roofing on three small and open hangers. A small Cesna plane was tipped onto one wing. A cotton trailer was overturned. Trees were also blown down.
October 2015	Flash Flood	Kingstree	$35,000	Water was reportedly crossing North Jackson Street.
November 1995	Tornado (F0)	Kingstree	$20,000	Tornado destroyed a mobile home and scattered cotton bales.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingstree	$3,000	Trees were reported down on Park Avenue.
August 1999	Hail	Kingstree	$3,000	Along with nickle size hail, thunderstorm wind downed a tree on Kelly St and downed limbs around town.
April 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingstree	$2,000	Two large trees were reported down across Fulton Avenue.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingstree	$1,000	A tree was reported down across Indiantown Rd. The time was estimated based on radar data.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingstree	$1,000	A large tree was reported down along Highway 527 near Johnny Boys Express. The time was estimated based on radar data.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingstree	$1,000	A large tree was reported down on Heller Street.
April 2011	Hail	Kingstree	$500	Hail to the size of quarters was reported by a trained spotter.
July 2013	Flood	Kingstree	-	Flooding was reported on Longstreet near Main Street.
April 2009	Hail	Kingstree	-	Hail up to the size of nickels was reported.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingstree	-	Trees and power lines were reported down along Red Road. The report was relayed via South Carolina Department of Transportation and Santee Electric Cooperative.
April 2006	Hail	Kingstree	-	Golfball size hail was reported.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingstree	-	Trees down.
April 2006	Hail	Kingstree	-	Penny and quarter size hail was reported.
May 2006	Hail	Kingstree	-	Penny size hail was reported in Mouzon and Cades.
May 2006	Hail	Kingstree	-	Penny size hail in Mouzan.
June 2005	Hail	Kingstree	-	Golf ball size hail caused significant damage to several tobacco fields. Up to three inches of hail covered the ground.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingstree	-	Williamsburg 911 reported trees down at the intersection of Sumpter Hwy and Rt 527.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingstree	-	Sherriff's department reported trees down.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingstree	-	Law enforcement reported trees down with power outages in numerous locations.
June 2001	Hail	Kingstree	-	Dime size hail reported.
March 2000	Hail	Kingstree	-	KINGSTREE POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
April 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingstree	-	Ham radio operator reported trees down.
August 2000	Hail	Kingstree	-	Dime size hail reported.
April 1999	Hail	Kingstree	-	Public report of golfball size hail along SC527 west of Kingstree.
November 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Kingstree	-	Trees were down causing power outages.
February 1999	Hail	Kingstree	-	no account filed
March 1999	Hail	Kingstree	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Kingstree	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Williamsburg County

Newspapers printed here

12,243 digitised pages

1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 1,411 issues, 12,243 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.

Newspaper	Published
The County Record	1885 to 1975

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Thorntree	1.0 miles	1970
M. F. Heller House	1.0 miles	1994
Colonel John Gotea Pressley House	1.1 miles	1997
Williamsburg County Courthouse	1.2 miles	1982
Scott House	3.9 miles	1982
Salters Plantation House	5.6 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100005612 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Williamsburg County	All 12 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.