Guillebeau House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“Guillebeau House is a historic home located in Hickory Knob State Resort Park near Willington in McCormick County, South Carolina. It was built in about 1764 and is a double-pen log house with one exterior chimney and two front entrances.”
Wikipedia article Guillebeau House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for McCormick 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, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. Hickory Knob State Park, Willington, 29835
When was it listed? March 1973
Category. building
Census division. Mount Carmel
National Register reference number. 73002136 - 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

119 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Guillebeau House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 948 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 19 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/undetermined	42
Debris and open burning	24
Arson/incendiarism	19
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Recreation and ceremony	6
Natural	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Smoking	3
Other causes	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 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2001	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	97 acres	Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests	LITTLE RIVER FIRE
16 September 2011	Other causes	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in McCormick County

Storms near this property

12 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Willington, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 9 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
January 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Willington	$4,000	Sheriff reported several trees down on Foster Road.
October 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Willington	$3,000	EM reported trees down on powerlines on Hwy 28 near Richey road.
April 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Willington	$3,000	Dispatch reported trees down on hwy 81 near Willington.
April 2017	Hail	Willington	$10	Dime to nickel size hail reported near Willington along Hwy 81.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Willington	-	McCormick County dispatch reported trees down along Hwy 28 north. Time estimated based on radar.
November 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Willington	-	McCormick County Dispatch reported powerlines down along New Cut Rd. Time estimated by radar.
February 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Willington	-	A tree was downed at Moss Ave and James Speed Rd.
January 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Willington	-	EM reported a tree down across the road on Hwy 81 near Willington. Exact location not given. Time estimated.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Willington	-	Dispatch reported strong winds downed a tree at the Mims Community Center.
January 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Willington	-	Trees and power lines were downed on Willington Academy Dr.
April 2017	Hail	Willington	-	Large hail and gusty winds at Hwy 81 and Morrah Bridge Rd.
April 2017	Hail	Willington	-	Large hail and gusty winds at Hwy 81 and Morrah Bridge Rd.

Every storm recorded in McCormick 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
John De La Howe State School	1.7 miles	1970
Gibert, John Albert, M.D., House	2.0 miles	1993
Calhoun-Gibert House	2.5 miles	1996
Mount Carmel Historic District	5.6 miles	1982
Calhoun Mill	6.3 miles	1980
Long Cane Massacre Site	6.8 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73002136 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
McCormick County	All 22 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.