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Photograph of Dr. John Glenn House
Photograph by Bill Fitzpatrick, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Dr. John Glenn House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“John Glenn House is a historic home located near Jenkinsville, Fairfield County, South Carolina. It was built about 1845, and is a two-story, five-bay, weatherboarded frame, end-gabled Greek Revival style residence.”

Wikipedia article Dr. John Glenn House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 44 National Register listings published here for Fairfield County · listed in 1984 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Glenn, Dr. John, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. SC 215, Jenkinsville, 29180
  • When was it listed? December 1984
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Fairfield County MRA
  • Census division. Winnsboro South
  • National Register reference number. 84000572 - 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

157 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 157 fires within 5 miles of Dr. John Glenn House between 1992 and 2019, burning about 569 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined68
Debris and open burning35
Equipment and vehicle use24
Natural7
Arson/incendiarism6
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks1
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2005Smokingunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2016Recreation and ceremony6.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Fairfield County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Dr. John Glenn House: 6 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Dawkins Sand DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Leiper-Davis QuarryGranite, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer1900
Unidentified MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSand
Unnamed Dimension Stone QuarryGranite, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerIgneous Intrusion
Mcmeekin MineClayPast Producer
Mcmeekin Shale PitClayPast ProducerMetamorphic
Richtex MineClayUnknownMetamorphic

Every working recorded in Fairfield County

Storms near this property

21 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jenkinsville, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 14 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2011Thunderstorm WindJenkinsville$8,000SCE&G and DOT reported a few trees and powerlines down with power outages near Lake Monticello and Hwy 215.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindJenkinsville$2,000DOT reported several trees down in the Jenkinsville area.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindJenkinsville$2,000Sheriff reported a couple trees down near the intersection of Hwys 213 and 215.
February 2024HailJenkinsville$100Public reported half inch hail in Jenkinsville.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindJenkinsville-Fairfield County Dispatch reported trees down on Jenkinsville Road near SC 215. Time estimated by radar.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindJenkinsville-Trees down in the town of Jenkinsville near Hwy 215 and McKennin Rd.
April 2008Thunderstorm WindJenkinsville-DOT reported several trees down on hwy 213.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindJenkinsville-Sheriff reported numerous trees down countywide.
April 2008HailJenkinsville-Public reported nickel size hail near the Monticello resevoir at the EZ-Mart.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindJenkinsville-Sheriff reported trees down on Glenn Bridge, Brown Bridge, and Bundick roads.
February 2006Tornado (F0)Jenkinsville-A small F0 intermittently touched down near SC944 in Richland county and continued to Cedar Lake Drive in Fairfield county. Only trees were taken down.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindJenkinsville-SKYWARN spotter reported trees down in the Jenkinsville area.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindJenkinsville-Highway dept. reported several trees down in the Jenkinsville area.
September 2004Tornado (F0)Jenkinsville-An F0 intermittently touched down and took down trees from Jenkinsville to the Greenbrier Community.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindJenkinsville-SKYWARN spotter reported trees down on hwy 26 and SC secondary rd 20-70.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindJenkinsville-Post Office reported several trees and large branches down in the Jenkinsville area.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindJenkinsville-Sheriff reported a few trees down in the Jenkinsville area.
July 2000HailJenkinsville-Public and damage survey reported golf ball size hail hwy 383.
July 2000Tornado (F0)Jenkinsville-Damage survey confirmed an F0 touched down on hwy 383 and took down trees and did minor damage to a roof on a home.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindJenkinsville-Sheriff reported couple of trees down.
April 1997HailJenkinsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fairfield 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

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
High Point0.2 miles1984
Mayfair2.6 miles1985
Little River Baptist Church4.6 miles1972
Ebenezer Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church5.0 miles1971
Kincaid-Anderson House5.0 miles1974
Bob Lemmon House7.1 miles1984

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 84000572 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Fairfield CountyAll 44 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.
  • 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.