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Photograph of David Houser House
Photograph by Bill Fitzpatrick, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

David Houser House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“David Houser House, also known as Oak Grove, is a historic home located near St. Matthews, Calhoun County, South Carolina, United States.”

Wikipedia article David Houser House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Calhoun County · listed in 1980 · 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 5 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Houser, David, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. W of St. Matthews on U.S. 176, St. Matthews, 29135
  • When was it listed? November 1980
  • Category. building
  • Census division. St. Matthews
  • Architectural style. Federal architecture
  • National Register reference number. 80003656 - 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

332 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 332 fires within 5 miles of David Houser House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 838 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 13 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 burning160
Missing data/not specified/undetermined81
Equipment and vehicle use38
Arson/incendiarism13
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Natural13
Smoking10
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Calhoun County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of David Houser House: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Roof PitClayProducer

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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Puritan Farm1.5 miles1974
Calhoun County Courthouse3.4 miles1981
Col. J. A. Banks House3.4 miles1980
Calhoun County Library3.6 miles1975
Col. Olin M. Dantzler House3.8 miles1973
Culclasure-Geiger Farmstead5.7 miles2023

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80003656 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Calhoun CountyAll 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.