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Photograph of Robertville Baptist Church
Photograph by Bill Fitzpatrick, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Robertville Baptist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“Robertville Baptist Church is a historic Southern Baptist church located at the junction of U.S. 321 and CR 26 in Robertville, Jasper County, South Carolina. It was built about 1847, and is a one-story, small frame building with Greek Revival and Gothic Revival details.”

Wikipedia article Robertville Baptist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Jasper County · listed in 1972 · 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.
  • Address. Jct. of U.S. 321 and CR 26, Robertville, 29922
  • When was it listed? February 1972
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Grays-Tillman
  • National Register reference number. 72001213 - 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

314 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 314 fires within 5 miles of Robertville Baptist Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,308 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 64 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 burning116
Missing data/not specified/undetermined94
Arson/incendiarism64
Equipment and vehicle use17
Natural11
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Smoking4
Other causes2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
7 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2019Smoking1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Jasper County

Storms near this property

8 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Robertville, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2012 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
May 2024Thunderstorm WindRobertville$1,000DOT reported a tree down on Clyo Road.
April 2013Thunderstorm WindRobertville$500Law Enforcement reported a tree in the roadway at Robertville and Cotton Hill Roads.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindRobertville$500South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down at Highway 119 and Sand Hills Road.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindRobertville-The South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down on Highway 321 between Robertville and Highway 601.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindRobertville-Law enforcement reported a tree down on Stokes Bluff Road at the intersection with River Bluff Lane.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindRobertville-The Jasper County Warning Point reported a tree down near the intersection of Janie Lane and Pleasant Hill Road.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindRobertville-South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down on Clyo Road near the intersection with Highway 119.
March 2012HailRobertville-Public reported penny sized hail at the Jasper County Recycling Center.

Every storm recorded in Jasper 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

2 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
J.C. Richardson House0.1 miles2014
Tillman School6.6 miles2016

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 72001213 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jasper CountyAll 8 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.