Virginia Durant Young House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The Virginia Durant Young House, also known as Fairfax Public Library, is a historic home located at Fairfax, Allendale County, South Carolina. It was built in 1881, and is a frame, weatherboarded, vernacular Victorian cottage with a gable roof.”
Wikipedia article Virginia Durant Young House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Allendale County · listed in 1983 · 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Young, Virginia Durant, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. US 278, Fairfax, 29827
When was it listed? August 1983
Category. building
Census division. Fairfax
National Register reference number. 83002183 - 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

189 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 189 fires within 5 miles of Virginia Durant Young House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 687 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 38 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	70
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	46
Arson/incendiarism	38
Natural	11
Smoking	8
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Other causes	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
8 September 2009	Smoking	1.3 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2019	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Allendale County

Storms near this property

28 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairfax, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 22 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 tornado. 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
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairfax	$5,000	Several trees reported down in and around Fairfax.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairfax	$4,000	The Allendale county Emergency Manager reported a tree down along 6th Street behind the IGA Super Market, another tree down near the intersection of 5th Avenue and Aiken Avenue, and both trees and power lines down near the intersection of Highway 278 and Aiken Avenue in Fairfax, South Carolina.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairfax	$2,000	Power lines down...trees down at 7th and Bay Shore.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairfax	$2,000	2 large trees down in Fairfax.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairfax	$1,000	Broadcast media relayed a picture of a tree down between Brunson and Fairfax, South Carolina.
March 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairfax	$1,000	An emergency manager reported a tree down on Aiken Avenue South.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairfax	$1,000	The public reported a tree and power line down in Fairfax, South Carolina.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairfax	$1,000	Large tree down at intersection of Jenny Rd and Mt.Pleasant Rd.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairfax	$500	The highway department reported a tree down at the intersection of 7th street and Laurens Street in Fairfax, South Carolina.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairfax	$500	One tree was reported down on State Road 47.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairfax	$500	Tree limbs down at Hideaway Pines Golf Club.
July 2008	Hail	Fairfax	$250	A trained weather spotter reported penny size hail and downed tree limbs in Varnville, Georgia.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairfax	-	Allendale County dispatch reported power lines down along Williamson Street.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairfax	-	The South Carolina Department of Transportation reported a tree down near the intersection of Charleston Avenue and 4th Street in Fairfax.
May 2020	Hail	Fairfax	-	Allendale County dispatch reported golf ball sized hail in Fairfax.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairfax	-	The South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down near the intersection of Highway 321 and Highway 278.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairfax	-	The Allendale County 911 Call Center reported a tree down near Fairfax.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairfax	-	An emergency manager reported a tree down and across both lanes of Mixon Corner Road.
March 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairfax	-	Allendale County dispatch reported multiple trees down on power lines on Bay Shore Drive near Fairfax.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairfax	-	Law Enforcement reported a tree blown down along Bufords Bridge Highway.
March 2008	Hail	Fairfax	-	A trained weather spotter reported dime to quarter sized hail near Fairfax, South Carolina.
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairfax	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees on Revolutionary Trail.
September 2004	Tornado (F1)	Fairfax	-	A weak F1 tornado crossed from Hampton county into Allendale county. The tornado uprooted and snapped off trees along its path.
February 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairfax	-	Several trees were down including one that fell on a car.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairfax	-	Numerous trees down.
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairfax	-	Numerous tress and power lines down.
April 2006	Hail	Fairfax	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Fairfax	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Allendale 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

4 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Allendale Training School	4.6 miles	2022
Allendale County Courthouse	5.3 miles	2007
Roselawn	6.5 miles	1976
Smyrna Baptist Church	6.8 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83002183 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Allendale County	All 10 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.