Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
From the record
“Williams Place is a historic home and farm complex located near Glenn Springs, Spartanburg County, South Carolina. It was developed between about 1839 and 1850, and includes 10 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 2 contributing structures.”
Wikipedia article Williams Place, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 64 National Register listings published here for Spartanburg County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.82001527- 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
64 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Williams Place
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 249 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 10 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
26
Debris and open burning
17
Arson/incendiarism
10
Misuse of fire by a minor
6
Natural
2
Equipment and vehicle use
1
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
14 workings within 5 miles of Williams Place: 7 past producers, 3 producers, 2 unknowns, 1 prospect.
4 still produce. What was taken out: Vermiculite, Kyanite, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Glenn Springs, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 thunderstorm wind.
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.
A small tornado spun up as a thunderstorm moved across ridges in hilly terrain in southern Spartanburg County. The small tornado was viewed by several people and was accompanied by marble-size hail. Witnesses stated there was one flash of lightning and one roll of thunder as the storm moved across. The roofs of a home and barn were damaged and an outbuilding was destroyed. Power was out in the area for a few hours. A similar storm produced some minor wind damage in the Glenn Springs/Pauline area.
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
5 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.
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.
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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