Built in 1911 (Neoclassical architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.
From the record
“The Dillon County Courthouse, built in 1911, is a historic courthouse located at 301 West Main Street in the city of Dillon in Dillon County, South Carolina. It was designed in the Classical Revival style by Darlington native William Augustus Edwards who designed eight other South Carolina courthouses as well as academic buildings at 12 institutions in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina.”
Wikipedia article Dillon County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 20 National Register listings published here for Dillon County · listed in 1981 · category: Building · built in 1911, Neoclassical architecture, by William Augustus Edwards.
Also known as. Courthouses in South Carolina Designed by William Augustus Edwards TR
Census division. Dillon
When was it built? 1911
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
Architect. William Augustus Edwards
National Register reference number.81000564- 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
402 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 402 fires within 5 miles of Dillon County Courthouse
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,459 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 86 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
139
Debris and open burning
105
Arson/incendiarism
86
Equipment and vehicle use
26
Misuse of fire by a minor
20
Smoking
7
Recreation and ceremony
5
Natural
4
Railroad operations and maintenance
4
Other causes
3
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Dillon, the town this property stands in, in 45 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 31 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
Law enforcement reported numerous trees down in and near Dillon. Some trees were down on houses and across powerlines. Some of the trees were blocking roadways.
1 paper published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 365 issues,
3,089 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be
looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
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.
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.
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