Thomas Fraser House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“Thomas Fraser House, also known as Woodham House and Gregg House, is a historic home located at Bishopville, Lee County, South Carolina. It was built in 1847, and is a two-story, vernacular Greek Revival style house with a gable roof, weatherboard siding and a brick foundation.”
Wikipedia article Thomas Fraser House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Lee County · listed in 1986 · 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. Fraser, Thomas, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. US 15, Bishopville, 29010
When was it listed? January 1986
Category. building
Also known as. Bishopville MRA
Census division. Bishopville
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 86000050 - 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

210 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 210 fires within 5 miles of Thomas Fraser House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,305 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 27 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	101
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	59
Arson/incendiarism	27
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Smoking	4
Natural	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
6 September 2018	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2005	Debris and open burning	15 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Lee County

Storms near this property

60 of 79 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bishopville, the town this property stands in, in 79 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 47 thunderstorm wind, 25 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Bishopville	1 hurt	NWS employee and sheriff reported trees down in and around the Bishopville area. One persone was injured when a tree fell on their car.
July 2000	Lightning	Bishopville	$60,000	Lightning struck a tree and a home causing the home to burn to the ground.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Bishopville	$8,000	Sheriff reported trees down on Kelly Bridge Road in Bishopville.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Bishopville	$7,000	Sheriff reported several trees and powerlines down in the Bishopville area.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Bishopville	$6,000	Sheriff reported powerlines down in Bishopville.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Bishopville	$6,000	EM reported several trees down just west of Bishopville on Hwy 34.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Bishopville	$4,000	Sheriff reported trees down on St. Charles road.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Bishopville	$4,000	County official reported trees and powerlines down on Sandy Grove Church road east of Bishopville.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Bishopville	$4,000	DOT reported several trees down and a large highway sign from the intersection of Hwy 15 and I-20 to just south of Bishopville.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Bishopville	$3,000	Sheriff reported trees down on the southe side of Bishopville.
September 2020	Flash Flood	Bishopville	$2,000	Roads were flooded and impassable in the city of Bishopville, including S Heyward St, S Calhoun St, and along Main St. 2 to 4 inches of water entered a duplex on S. Heyward St. Times estimated.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Bishopville	$2,000	Sheriff reported a couple of trees and powerlines down on St. Charles Road South of Bishopville.
February 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Bishopville	$2,000	Highway Patrol reported a couple of trees down around Bishopville on Shadygrove Church and Cypress roads.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Bishopville	$2,000	Sheriff reported a few trees down on St. Charles Highway.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Bishopville	$2,000	Sheriff reported several trees down on Woodrow Road.
March 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Bishopville	$2,000	no account filed
February 2024	Hail	Bishopville	$100	Public report of pea size hail in Bishopville.
February 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Bishopville	-	Lee County dispatch reported downed trees in Bishopville.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Bishopville	-	Lee County dispatch reported trees down on powerlines on Main St as well as trees down on Dogwood Dr in Bishopville, SC.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Bishopville	-	A tree was downed, taking down a power line, at Law St and S Heyward St in Bishopville. \| Time estimated.
December 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Bishopville	-	SC Highway Patrol reported multiple trees down near the I-20 and Route 15 interchange.
April 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Bishopville	-	Media relayed photo, via social media, of a tree down on a house in Bishopville.
March 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Bishopville	-	Lee Co Sheriff's Dept reported trees down across the county, as well as power lines down in the town of Bishopville.
March 2016	Heavy Rain	Bishopville	-	Lee County Sheriff Dispatch reported that DOT was sent to a few roadways around Bishopville where some localized roadway flooding was occurring.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Bishopville	-	Dispatch reported multiple trees down and power lines down on several roads near Bishopville. Mulitple trees down on Light Wood Knot Road...Dogwood Road and Spring Hill Road.
May 2009	Hail	Bishopville	-	A&T Truckstop reported 1 inch hail.
June 2009	Hail	Bishopville	-	Reported penny size hail just north of Bishopville.
June 2009	Hail	Bishopville	-	Public reported penny size hail.
June 2009	Hail	Bishopville	-	Spotter reported quarter size hail in Bishopville.
May 2009	Hail	Bishopville	-	Convenience store reported nicke size hail near I-20.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Bishopville	-	Sheriff reported trees down on highway 15.
May 2008	Hail	Bishopville	-	CITCO Food Mart reported penny size hail near exit 108 on I-20.
June 2008	Hail	Bishopville	-	Public reported nickel size hail in Bishopville.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Bishopville	-	Sheriff reported several trees down on highway 441 and Spring Hill road.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Bishopville	-	Sheriff reported trees down on Redhill road.
March 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Bishopville	-	Emergency Manager reported trees and powerlines down. Large dump trucks at X-tra Mile Trucking Company on hwy 341 were damaged. A roof was partially torn off a home on Sumter highway (15).
March 2008	Hail	Bishopville	-	SKYWARN spotter reported penny size hail south of Bishopville.
May 2008	Hail	Bishopville	-	The public reported nickel size hail in Bishopville and west. Hail covered the ground 5 miles west of Bishopville.
March 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Bishopville	-	Sheriff reported about a dozen trees down around the county.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Bishopville	-	Emergency Manager reported trees and powerlines down along with pea size hail.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Bishopville	-	DOT reported several trees down on hwy 441.
June 2007	Hail	Bishopville	-	Highway Patrol repoted nickel size hail on I-20.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Bishopville	-	Large limbs were down on Ashland Stokes Bridge road.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Bishopville	-	Utility company reported large limbs down on powerlines with outages.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Bishopville	-	Storm survey found scattered trees down in western Lee county.
April 2006	Hail	Bishopville	-	Convenience store reported 1 inch hail.
May 2006	Hail	Bishopville	-	Public reported quarter size hail.
May 2006	Hail	Bishopville	-	Post Office reported quarter size hail hwy 15.
May 2006	Hail	Bishopville	-	Highway Patrol repoted nickel size hail on I-20 near the Darlington County line.
May 2006	Hail	Bishopville	-	SKYWARN spotter reported nickel size hail in Bishopville.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Bishopville	-	Electric company reported large branches and powerlines down.
May 2005	Hail	Bishopville	-	Park Service reported 3/4 inch hail.
October 2005	Hail	Bishopville	-	Sheriff reported penny size hail.
October 2005	Hail	Bishopville	-	Sheriff reported golf ball size hail in the vicinity of Una.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Bishopville	-	Emergency Manager reported trees down in Bishopville.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Bishopville	-	EOC reported numerous trees down in Bishopville.
September 2004	Tornado (F0)	Bishopville	-	An F0 touched down in Bishopville then again in the Lucknow area. Trees and powerlines were down with minor damage to a couple of homes.
September 2004	Tornado (F0)	Bishopville	-	Storm Chaser reported an F0 did minor damage to a mobile home and took down some trees and powerlines.
August 2004	Flash Flood	Bishopville	-	Sheriff reported flash flooding on several rural roads closing them to through traffic.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Bishopville	-	Emergency manager reported trees and powerlines down in Bishopville.

Every storm recorded in Lee 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
South Main Historic District	0.6 miles	1986
James Carnes House	0.8 miles	1986
Lee County Courthouse	0.9 miles	1981
William Rogers House	1.0 miles	1986
Bishopville Commercial Historic District	1.1 miles	1986
Tall Oaks	1.2 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86000050 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lee County	All 18 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.