William Seabrook House

Built in 1810. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

From the record

“The William Seabrook House, also known as the Seabrook is a plantation house built about 1810 on Edisto Island, South Carolina, United States, southwest of Charleston. It is located off Steamboat Landing Road Extension close to Steamboat Creek about 0.7 mi (1.1 km) from Steam Boat Landing.”
Wikipedia article William Seabrook House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 227 National Register listings published here for Charleston County · listed in 1971 · category: Building · built in 1810.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listed as. Seabrook, William, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. N of Edisto Island off SC 174, Edisto Island, 29438
When was it listed? May 1971
Category. building
Census division. Edisto Island
When was it built? 1810
National Register reference number. 71000758 - 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

81 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of William Seabrook House between 1992 and 2018, burning about 609 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 28 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
Arson/incendiarism	28
Debris and open burning	27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Natural	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 1998	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2013	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 1999	Natural	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	12 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 July 2000	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 July 2012	Arson/incendiarism	3.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 June 2001	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Charleston 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
Lawton-Seabrook Cemetery	1.3 miles	2017
Oak Island	1.8 miles	1986
Edisto Island Presbyterian Church	1.8 miles	1971
Cassina Point	1.9 miles	1986
Old House Plantation	1.9 miles	1971
Old House Plantation and Commissary (Boundary Increase)	1.9 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 71000758 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Charleston County	All 227 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.