Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
From the record
“William Robertson House, also known as Wampee Plantation Summer House, is a historic home located at Pinopolis, Berkeley County, South Carolina. It was built about 1844, and is a two-story, three-bay, frame I-House, sheathed in weatherboard.”
Wikipedia article William Robertson House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 26 National Register listings published here for Berkeley County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.82003836- 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
305 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 305 fires within 5 miles of William Robertson House
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 853 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 69 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
126
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
78
Arson/incendiarism
69
Misuse of fire by a minor
17
Smoking
4
Natural
3
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Railroad operations and maintenance
2
Recreation and ceremony
2
Other causes
1
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
Pinopolis, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 2006 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 funnel cloud.
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.
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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