Alpheus Victor and Martha Cooper Bethea Farmstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.

From the record

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Dillon County · listed in 2024 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listed as. Bethea, Alpheus Victor and Martha Cooper, Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 2547 SC Highway 34 West, Dillon, 29536
When was it listed? September 2024
Category. district
Census division. Dillon
National Register reference number. 100010894 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

207 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 207 fires within 5 miles of Alpheus Victor and Martha Cooper Bethea Farmstead between 1992 and 2020, burning about 987 acres in total. 8 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	79
Debris and open burning	42
Arson/incendiarism	32
Equipment and vehicle use	28
Natural	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Recreation and ceremony	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	50 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Dillon County

Storms near this property

45 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dillon, the town this property stands in, in 45 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 31 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 1 injury. 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
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillon	1 hurt	Several trees down on W. Main St. in Dillon. A man was pinned under tree limbs and was taken to the hospital.
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillon	$300,000	no account filed
October 2016	Flash Flood	Dillon	$250,000	A portion of Mt Calvary Road was closed due to flood waters. Adjacent structures were impacted by the flood waters. The time was estimated.
September 2004	Tornado (F0)	Dillon	$100,000	A tornado flattened and old barn and part of the roof of a shed was torn off. A few trees were snapped...one damaging a roof of a home.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillon	$15,000	Powerlines, road signs and trees blown down by thunderstorm winds. One house damaged falling tree.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillon	$10,000	Large tree fell on a house.
April 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillon	$5,000	no account filed
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillon	$3,000	A large tree was reportedly down on a house on East Jefferson Street.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillon	$2,000	A tree was reportedly down on a parked car on Lauren Avenue.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillon	$2,000	Trees were reported down on Radford Boulevard.
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillon	$2,000	Thunderstorm Winds damaged trees and snapped a railroad crossing barrier.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillon	$1,500	A tree was reportedly down on Interstate 95 at mile marker 191. The time was estimated based on radar data.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillon	$1,000	A tree was blown down on Hopkins Road.
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillon	$1,000	A tree was reported down along Interstate 95.
January 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillon	-	There were numerous reports of trees down in the Dillon area.
April 2011	Funnel Cloud	Dillon	-	The public reported a funnel cloud near the Little Pee Dee River.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillon	-	Power lines were reported down on E Cleveland Street and N 4th Avenue. The Report was relayed via Dillon County 911 Center.
March 2008	Hail	Dillon	-	Hail up to the size of golf balls reported by law enforcement through the 911 Center.
March 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillon	-	Law enforcement reported numerous trees down in and near Dillon. Some trees were down on houses and across powerlines. Some of the trees were blocking roadways.
May 2008	Hail	Dillon	-	Hail up to the size of pennies was reported.
May 2008	Hail	Dillon	-	Nickel size hail was reported by the public. Time was estimated based on radar.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillon	-	Trees were reported down.
June 2007	Hail	Dillon	-	Nickel size hail destroyed 90 acres of cotton near the intersection of SR 34 and Harley Bridge Rd. Penny size hail was also reported across town.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillon	-	Trees down on Cedar Street. Isolated downed trees were observed across the county.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillon	-	Downed trees reported in uptown Dillon and on Hwy 9.
May 2006	Hail	Dillon	-	Nickel size hail fell at a farm supply store.
March 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillon	-	Dillon 911 reported trees down on Hwy 38 near Oak Grove.
February 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillon	-	Dillon 911 reported trees down on power lines.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillon	-	The Dillon county 911 center reported numerous trees down.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillon	-	Dillon 911 reported three trees down.
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillon	-	Dillon 911 reported trees down.
August 2002	Hail	Dillon	-	Dime size hail reported.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillon	-	Public reported trees down across the road at the Lake View Millpond.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillon	-	Dillon county sheriff reported two large trees down...one on Countryside Rd. and the other on Interstate 95.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillon	-	One large tree down.
April 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillon	-	Sherriff reported a tree down across SC Hwy 57.
April 2000	Hail	Dillon	-	911 operator reported numerous reports of dime size hail in the town of Dillon.
July 2000	Hail	Dillon	-	911 center reported quarter size hail.
July 2000	Hail	Dillon	-	911 center reported dime size hail.
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillon	-	A tree was downed along Highway SC 34.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillon	-	Several tree limbs down and power outages in rural areas.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillon	-	A tree with a 24-inch diameter trunk crashed into the roof of a house.
May 1999	Hail	Dillon	-	no account filed
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Dillon	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Dillon	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dillon County

Newspapers printed here

3,089 digitised pages

1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 365 issues, 3,089 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 Dillon Herald	1894 to ????

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
Joel Allen House	2.7 miles	1974
James W. Hamer House	3.9 miles	2007
Dillon County Courthouse	4.1 miles	1981
James W. Dillon House	4.1 miles	1971
Dillon Graded School and Dillon Public School	4.1 miles	2014
Dillon Downtown Historic District	4.3 miles	2003

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100010894 in Record Group 79.
Dillon County	All 20 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.