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William Dixon Fowler House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

From the record

“The William Dixon Fowler House was built around 1901 in Spartanburg County, South Carolina by William Dixon Fowler. The Queen Anne style house is believed to have been built from plans published by prolific residential architect George F.”

Wikipedia article William Dixon Fowler House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 64 National Register listings published here for Spartanburg County · listed in 2012 · 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. Fowler, William Dixon, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 5885 SC 215, Pauline, 29374
  • When was it listed? February 2012
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Pauline
  • Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
  • Architect. George Franklin Barber
  • National Register reference number. 12000016 - 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

66 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of William Dixon Fowler House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 268 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined34
Debris and open burning15
Arson/incendiarism9
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Other causes1
Smoking1
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
16 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2002Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 August 1999Natural11 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Spartanburg County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of William Dixon Fowler House: 4 unknowns, 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Sand. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Fairforest Creek Sand MineSandUnknownSedimentary
Mud MineGold, CopperPast Producer
Mud MineGoldUnknownVein
Nott MineGoldPast Producer
Nott MineGoldUnknownVein
Ophir MineGoldPast Producer
West Mine/Bogan OphirGoldUnknownVein

Every working recorded in Spartanburg County

Storms near this property

17 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pauline, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 lightning. 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
June 2001LightningPauline$20,000Lightning sparked a fire which destroyed an unoccupied, wooden frame house.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindPauline-County comms reported a tree and power lines blown down in the Pauline area.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindPauline-County comms reported multiple trees blown down in the Pauline area.
April 2012HailPauline-Golf ball size hail fell along highway 215 at Foster Mill Circle.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindPauline-Multiple trees were blown down along highway 56 south of Spartanburg.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindPauline-Numerous trees were blown down in areas south of Pauline, with trees blocking Riddle Rd, Marshall Tucker Rd, Blackstock Rd, and Gwinn Mill Rd.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindPauline-Several trees and power lines were blown down, and part of a barn roof was damaged on highway 56 near Pauline.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindPauline-Several trees were blown down along Shiloh Church Rd.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindPauline-Two trees blown down.
November 2000Thunderstorm WindPauline-Some trees were blown down, with at least one falling onto a house.
July 2012HailPauline-no account filed
September 2009HailPauline-no account filed
June 2008HailPauline-no account filed
January 2006HailPauline-no account filed
August 2003HailPauline-no account filed
July 1997HailPauline-no account filed
August 1997Thunderstorm WindPauline-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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Glenn Springs Historic District0.8 miles1982
Camp Hill2.1 miles1970
Williams Place4.6 miles1982
Golightly-Dean House4.9 miles1988
Walnut Grove Plantation6.9 miles1970
Smith's Tavern6.9 miles1974

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 12000016 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Spartanburg CountyAll 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.