Augustus Belton and Margaret Wheeler Groce House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.

From the record

One of 64 National Register listings published here for Spartanburg County · listed in 2024 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listed as. Groce, Augustus Belton and Margaret Wheeler, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 110 Ridge Road, Lyman, 29365
When was it listed? January 2024
Category. building
Census division. Wellford
National Register reference number. 100009889 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

113 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Augustus Belton and Margaret Wheeler Groce House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 519 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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	54
Debris and open burning	31
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Arson/incendiarism	8
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Natural	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Other causes	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
19 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	2.8 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 August 2007	Debris and open burning	1.4 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
1 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 July 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Spartanburg County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Augustus Belton and Margaret Wheeler Groce House: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Granite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Arbuckle Quarry	Granite	Producer

Every working recorded in Spartanburg County

Storms near this property

23 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lyman, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 12 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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
August 2006	Lightning	Lyman	1 killed	Lightning struck a tree on Vernon St in Lyman, killing a 40-year-old woman who was tending to her dogs. Four dogs were killed as well.
September 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Lyman	$1,000	no account filed
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Lyman	-	County comms reported numerous trees and power lines blown down across Spartanburg County.
April 2020	Hail	Lyman	-	Public reported up to quarter sized hail in the Lyman area and quarter size hail on Highway 29 about a mile west of I-26.
June 2020	Hail	Lyman	-	Media reported pea to 3/4 inch hail in the Duncan area.
June 2019	Hail	Lyman	-	Public reported penny size in the Lyman area.
June 2017	Hail	Lyman	-	Public reported quarter size hail reported in the Lyman area.
September 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Lyman	-	NWS employee reported a large tree blown down at Highways 292 and 29, and a couple of smaller trees down on Lyman Rd.
July 2014	Hail	Lyman	-	Public reported 3/4 inch hail on Groce Rd.
May 2014	Hail	Lyman	-	Ham radio operator reported dime to quarter size hail at the intersection of Highway 80 and Wade Hampton Blvd.
June 2014	Hail	Lyman	-	Spotter reported quarter size hail near Lyman.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Lyman	-	Multiple large limbs and one power line were blown down in the Lyman area. Additional trees were blown down at Danzler Rd and highway 290 and at Danzler Rd and Duncan Reidville Rd. Trees were also blown down along Duncan Reidville Rd.
January 2013	Hail	Lyman	-	Penny size hail fell between Lyman and Inman.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Lyman	-	Several large tree limbs were blown down around Lyman, with one limb on power lines at Crescent St and Spartanburg Rd.
May 2009	Hail	Lyman	-	Hail was reported near the intersection of highway 290 and Danzler Rd.
March 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Lyman	-	Trees blown down.
September 2002	Flash Flood	Lyman	-	Water was flowing over a bridge, and 5 feet of railroad bed was washed out.
September 2001	Hail	Lyman	-	Trees blown down, and bark ripped off of trees, at Lake Lyman. Some power lines and power outages resulted. Also, an off-duty NWS employee in Campobello reported marble-sized hail and estimated winds of 55 to 60 mph.
April 2006	Hail	Lyman	-	no account filed
December 2004	Flash Flood	Lyman	-	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	Lyman	-	no account filed
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Lyman	-	no account filed
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Lyman	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Spartanburg 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

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
Startex Finishing Company	2.1 miles	2023
McMakin's Tavern	2.3 miles	1974
New Hope Farm	2.9 miles	1999
Apalache Mill	5.1 miles	2015
Shiloh Methodist Church	5.6 miles	2005
Bush House	5.8 miles	2003

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100009889 in Record Group 79.
Spartanburg County	All 64 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.