Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
From the record
“William Columbus Cauthen House, also known as Oak View Farm, is a historic home located near Kershaw, Lancaster County, South Carolina. It was built about 1848, and is a two-story, frame, weatherboarded, central-hall farmhouse, or I-house.”
Wikipedia article Dr. William Columbus Cauthen House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 29 National Register listings published here for Lancaster County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.82003872- 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
136 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 136 fires within 5 miles of Dr. William Columbus Cauthen House
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 525 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 15 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
46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
45
Arson/incendiarism
15
Misuse of fire by a minor
8
Equipment and vehicle use
8
Smoking
4
Recreation and ceremony
4
Natural
3
Fireworks
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Railroad operations and maintenance
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
12 workings within 5 miles of Dr. William Columbus Cauthen House: 9 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite, Granite, Stone, Dimension. 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
Kershaw, the town this property stands in, in 29 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 18 thunderstorm wind, 11 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.
An NWS Storm Survey determined that a very strong downburst occurred just east of the town of Kershaw along Arbor Dr, just before Woodhaven Rd. The damage was primarily to trees between Arbor Dr and Woodhaven Rd, with many trees uprooted and some snapped. Peak wind gusts were estimated to be near 105 MPH.
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.
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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