William Baker House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“William Baker House is a historic home located in Sandy Run, Calhoun County, South Carolina. It was built about 1830, and is a two-story, Classical Revival style frame structure on a high basement.”
Wikipedia article William Baker House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Calhoun County · listed in 1978 · 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.
Listed as. Baker, William, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. E of Gaston off U.S. 21, Gaston, 29053
When was it listed? March 1978
Category. building
Census division. Sandy Run-Staley Crossroads
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 78002494 - 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

238 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 238 fires within 5 miles of William Baker House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,026 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 11 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	95
Debris and open burning	68
Misuse of fire by a minor	28
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Arson/incendiarism	11
Natural	8
Smoking	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Fireworks	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
8 September 2018	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2018	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2018	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2007	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2019	Natural	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Calhoun County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of William Baker House: 2 unknowns, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Cleckley Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown	Sedimentary
Cleckley Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Roof Mine	Clay	Producer	Sedimentary
Unnamed Fullers Earth Pit	Clay	Unknown	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Calhoun 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78002494 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Calhoun County	All 14 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.
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.