Gamble House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“Gamble House is a historic farmhouse located near Nesmith, Williamsburg County, South Carolina. It dates to the early-19th century, and is a small wooden dwelling set upon brick piers with a steeply pitched gable roof.”
Wikipedia article Gamble House (Williamsburg County, South Carolina), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Williamsburg 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. W of Nesmith off SC 502, Nesmith, 29580
When was it listed? December 1978
Category. building
Census division. Nesmith
National Register reference number. 78002535 - 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

287 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 287 fires within 5 miles of Gamble House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,440 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 91 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 burning	93
Arson/incendiarism	91
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	81
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Natural	4
Smoking	1
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
25 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2010	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 2007	Natural	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 2015	Natural	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
14 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 August 2002	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Williamsburg County

Storms near this property

7 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nesmith, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Nesmith	$25,000	Storm survey found several trees snapped and a pack house was blown off its blocks. Another house sustained wind and hail damage. Golfball size hail was reported.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Nesmith	$4,000	Several trees were reportedly down along Sandhill Road.
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Nesmith	$3,000	TREES DOWN ON CAR
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Nesmith	-	A report came in of a tree down in roadway.
June 2007	Hail	Nesmith	-	Nickel size hail covered the ground.
February 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Nesmith	-	Electric company reported numerous large trees down with downed power lines.
May 2001	Hail	Nesmith	-	Public reported quarter size hail.

Every storm recorded in Williamsburg 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	John Calvin Wilson House	7.3 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78002535 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Williamsburg County	All 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.