Hamer Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“Hamer Hall is a historic home located near Hamer, Dillon County, South Carolina. It was built about 1890, and is a two-story, brick dwelling in the Late Victorian style.”
Wikipedia article Hamer Hall (Hamer, South Carolina), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Dillon County · listed in 1975 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 buildingss, 2 structuress as contributing to the listing.
Address. N of Hamer on U.S. 301, Hamer, 29547
When was it listed? May 1975
Category. building
Census division. Hamer
National Register reference number. 75001696 - 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

356 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 356 fires within 5 miles of Hamer Hall between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,218 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 98 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	105
Arson/incendiarism	98
Debris and open burning	79
Equipment and vehicle use	27
Misuse of fire by a minor	25
Smoking	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Natural	4
Fireworks	3
Other causes	2
Recreation and ceremony	2

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 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2018	Other causes	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Dillon County

Storms near this property

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hamer, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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
April 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamer	$9,000	Numerous trees were reported down along East Country Club Road between U.S. 301 and State Road 17.
May 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamer	$5,000	no account filed
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamer	$2,500	Trees were reported down on Mt Calvary Road.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamer	$2,500	Trees were reported down along Highway 301 near Apple Jack Loop.
February 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamer	$2,000	A National Weather Service Storm Survey Team found a large pine tree uprooted along Interstate 95, just north of the South Carolina Welcome Center.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamer	$1,000	Trees were blown down on Interstate 95 near mile marker 198.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamer	$1,000	A tree was reported down on Britt Drive.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamer	$1,000	A tree was reported down at the intersection of Oakland Road and West Country Club Road. The time was estimated based on radar data.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamer	-	Tree down in Hamer, SC reported by the public.
September 2018	Tornado (EF0)	Hamer	-	A tornado touched down near SR 17-198 just south of Vicksburg\|Drive, and skipped north along the east side of West Country Club \|Road. Several large limbs were were broken out of tree tops, along\|with a few snapped small pine trees and hardwoods. Additional \|minor tree damage was observed on the east side of Oscar Drive to \|near the intersection with Harlees Bridge Road, where several\|limbs were broken from the tops of oak trees.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamer	-	Trees were observed down along Interstate 95 Southbound.
May 1996	Hail	Hamer	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dillon 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
St. Paul's Methodist Church	4.4 miles	1977
James W. Hamer House	4.9 miles	2007
Dillon Graded School and Dillon Public School	5.3 miles	2014
James W. Dillon House	5.4 miles	1971
Dillon Downtown Historic District	5.5 miles	2003
Dillon County Courthouse	5.5 miles	1981

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75001696 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dillon County	All 20 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.