Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
From the record
“Ulmer-Summers House is a historic home located near Cameron, Calhoun County, South Carolina, United States. The original section was built in the late-18th century and was constructed on land originally granted to John Jacob Ulmer in 1757.”
Wikipedia article Ulmer-Summers House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 14 National Register listings published here for Calhoun County · listed in 1973 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.73001679- 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
189 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 189 fires within 5 miles of Ulmer-Summers House
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 545 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 7 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 burning
95
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
45
Equipment and vehicle use
19
Natural
9
Misuse of fire by a minor
8
Arson/incendiarism
7
Smoking
5
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
4 workings within 5 miles of Ulmer-Summers House: 2 producers, 1 unknown, 1 past producer.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Cameron, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 14 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 5 tornado, 1 heavy rain.
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.
Storm survey found significant damage to Browns Chapel Church. The steeple was blown off, several windows were blown out from the wind getting in on the southwest side, and several trees were down. Shingles, facia, and soffett were also torn off.
A long track EF-1 tornado from an outer band of Tropical Storm Helene began in eastern Orangeburg County and crossed into western Calhoun county north of Cameron Rd, just southwest of Cameron. While EF-1 damage was observed in Orangeburg County, EF-0 tree damage was observed in Calhoun County along Hwy 176. The tornado lifted along Highway 176 near Big Beaver Creek.
The tornado touched down in Orangeburg Co SC, where it was rated as EF-2. The tornado crossed into Calhoun Co near Four Holes Rd and moved to the northeast and dissipated near Old State Rd and Houcks Gin Rd. In Calhoun Co, the tornado was rated EF-1, knocking down numerous trees.
An EF-1 tornado touched down in Orangeburg Co SC around 1401 EDT (1301 EST) near the intersection of Old Elloree Rd and Odell Dr. The tornado then moved quickly to the north-northeast for nearly 8 miles, moving into Calhoun Co SC around 1407 EDT (1307 EST) near Church Camp Rd and Moorer Rd. The tornado continued to the NNE crossing Belleville Rd and then lifted around 1409 EDT (1309 EST) before reaching US Hwy 176. ||The tornado did considerable damage, snapping and uprooting a large number of hardwood and softwood trees along its path. Walls collapsed on a cinder block garage, with the metal roofing tossed across the roadway, on Moorer Rd.
A National Weather Service storm survey team determined that a tornado touched down near the Cameron Community Center on Saint John Road and traveled north-northeastward for 0.3 miles before lifting. Damage included uplifted trees, damage to the community center roof and garage door, a roof torn off of a baseball dugout, metal roofing ripped from Saint John Baptist Church, and damage to fencing and signs. Damage was consistent with an EF-0 tornado with maximum wind speeds of 80 mph.
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.
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.
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