John Calvin Wilson House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“John Calvin Wilson House is a historic home located near Indiantown, Williamsburg County, South Carolina. It was built about 1847, and is a two-story, five-bay, frame central-hall plan I-house.”
Wikipedia article John Calvin Wilson House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Williamsburg County · listed in 1982 · 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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Wilson, John Calvin, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Off SC 512, Indiantown, 29560
When was it listed? June 1982
Category. building
Census division. Indiantown
National Register reference number. 82003905 - 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

435 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 435 fires within 5 miles of John Calvin Wilson House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,978 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 129 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	145
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	140
Arson/incendiarism	129
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Smoking	4
Natural	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
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.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
30 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 August 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Williamsburg County

Storms near this property

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Indiantown, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Indiantown	$3,000	Trees were reported down at the intersection of Old Georgetown Road and Highway 261.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Indiantown	$3,000	Trees were reported down near the intersection of Indiantown Swamp Road and Highway 261.
May 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Indiantown	$1,000	A tree was blown down on Indiantown Swamp Rd and SC-261.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Indiantown	-	Numerous trees down around the Stuckey area.
April 1999	Hail	Indiantown	-	An east-moving thunderstorm dropped hail ranging from quarter to golfball size along SC512.
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Indiantown	-	NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN

Every storm recorded in Williamsburg 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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Gamble House	7.3 miles	1978
	Scott House	7.6 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82003905 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Williamsburg County	All 12 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.
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.