St. Paul's Methodist Church

Built in 1871 (vernacular architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

“Paul's Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church off SC 9 in Little Rock, Dillon County, South Carolina. It was built about 1871, and is constructed of heart pine weatherboarding in a transitional Italianate Victorian vernacular style.”
Wikipedia article St. Paul's Methodist Church (Little Rock, South Carolina), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Dillon County · listed in 1977 · category: Building · built in 1871, vernacular architecture.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Off SC 9, Little Rock, 29536
When was it listed? July 1977
Category. building
Census division. Little Rock
When was it built? 1871
Architectural style. vernacular architecture, Italianate architecture
National Register reference number. 77001220 - 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

368 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 368 fires within 5 miles of St. Paul's Methodist Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,447 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 93 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	108
Arson/incendiarism	93
Debris and open burning	92
Equipment and vehicle use	35
Misuse of fire by a minor	17
Smoking	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Other causes	2
Fireworks	2
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.

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	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	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

14 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Little Rock, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. The reports record 3 injuries. 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 2011	Tornado (EF1)	Little Rock	3 hurt, $180,000	A National Weather Service Storm Survey Team concluded an EF1 tornado touched down in Little Rock, South Carolina. The maximum wind speed was estimated to 105 mph. The path length was one and a half miles and the maximum path width was 440 yards. Several pine trees and a few hardwood trees were snapped. A few large hardwood trees were uprooted. As several of these trees fell, they caused significant damage to many homes near the intersection of Highway 9 and Harllees Bridge Road. There people were admitted to the hospital and later released.
October 2016	Flash Flood	Little Rock	$1,000,000	Portions of Highway 9 were impassable due to flood waters and the road was closed between Dillon and Little Rock. Adjacent roadways and structures were impacted by the flood waters. The time was estimated.
August 2004	Hail	Little Rock	$8,000	Hail ranging from nickel to quarter size caused damage to tobacco crops.
May 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Rock	$1,000	A tree was reported down near the intersection of Judson Road and Harllees Bridge Road. The time was estimated based on radar data.
April 2023	Hail	Little Rock	-	Hail was reported along Highway 9 southeast of Little Rock.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Rock	-	A tree fell onto Interstate 95.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Rock	-	Trees were reported down.
April 2003	Hail	Little Rock	-	A trained spotter reported penny size hail.
May 2003	Hail	Little Rock	-	The 911 center reported ping pong ball size hail.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Rock	-	Dillon county 911 reported trees down in Little Rock and on Interstate 95 near the Little Pee Dee River Bridge.
May 2000	Hail	Little Rock	-	Trained spotter reported dime-size hail.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Rock	-	Trees down.
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Rock	-	no account filed
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Little Rock	-	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
James W. Hamer House	0.6 miles	2007
Dillon Graded School and Dillon Public School	4.2 miles	2014
James W. Dillon House	4.3 miles	1971
Hamer Hall	4.4 miles	1975
Dillon County Courthouse	4.4 miles	1981
Dillon Downtown Historic District	4.5 miles	2003

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 77001220 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.