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Tom Williams House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“Tom Williams House is a historic home located near Williams, Colleton County, South Carolina. The house dates to the 19th century, and is a one-story, clapboard dogtrot style house on brick piers and with a spraddle roof.”

Wikipedia article Tom Williams House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Colleton County · listed in 1973 · 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. Williams, Tom, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 0.25 mi. W of Williams on SC 362, Williams, 29475
  • When was it listed? April 1973
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Smoaks
  • National Register reference number. 73001706 - 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

320 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 320 fires within 5 miles of Tom Williams House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,816 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 68 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 burning114
Missing data/not specified/undetermined101
Arson/incendiarism68
Equipment and vehicle use21
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Natural3
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 September 2005Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2005Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Colleton County

Storms near this property

23 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Williams, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 20 thunderstorm wind, 3 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
June 2009Thunderstorm WindWilliams$5,000Numerous trees were reported down in Williams, South Carolina.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindWilliams$3,000The Colleton county Emergency Manager reported several trees and power lines down around Ruffin, South Carolina.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindWilliams$2,500A Colleton County emergency manager reported power lines down along Garris Avenue near Till Lane.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindWilliams$1,000Colleton County dispatch reported a tree down in the roadway at Mill Pond Road and Lowcountry Highway.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWilliams$1,000Colleton County Emergency Management reported a tree down and in the roadway near 800 Smyly Road. A vehicle collided with the tree at this location but there were no reported injuries.
April 2013Thunderstorm WindWilliams$1,000Law Enforcement reported trees in the roadway near the intersection of Lumber road and Cutler road.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindWilliams$1,000SC Highway Patrol reported a tree down on Highway 21 near the SC Department of Transportation.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindWilliams$1,000Dispatch Center reported a tree down at on Highway 21 at Risher Road.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindWilliams$1,000Tree down. Tree down also reported down in Ruffin.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindWilliams-A Colleton County emergency manager reported a tree down along Lumber Road near the intersection with Avalon Drive.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindWilliams-A Colleton County emergency manager reported a tree down and blocking both lanes of the 3400 Block of Williams Road.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWilliams-Colleton County Emergency Management reported a tree down at the intersection of Garris Avenue and Williams Road, blocking both lanes. Another tree was down around the 2600 block of Williams Road and was also blocking both lanes.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWilliams-Colleton County Emergency Management reported a tree down along the 1700 block of George Warren Drive.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindWilliams-A Colleton County emergency manager reported a tree down along the 1700 Block of George Warren Drive.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindWilliams-Law enforcement reported a tree down near the intersection of Mill Pond Road and Low Country Highway.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindWilliams-Law Enforcement reported a tree and powerline down along Mount Carmel Road. A Vehicle hit the tree. Injuries and damage unknown.
March 2002Thunderstorm WindWilliams-Afew large trees were down.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindWilliams-Several Trees down.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindWilliams-Trees down.
August 1999Thunderstorm WindWilliams-Large tree blown down and lumber shed blown over.
May 2006HailWilliams-no account filed
March 1999HailWilliams-no account filed
April 1999HailWilliams-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Colleton 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

1 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
Ruffin High and Elementary School3.3 miles2025

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 73001706 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Colleton CountyAll 12 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.