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Photograph of William Harrison Sapp House
Photograph by Bill Fitzpatrick, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

William Harrison Sapp House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“William Harrison Sapp House is a historic home located near Tradesville, Lancaster County, South Carolina. It was built about 1897, and extensively remodeled in 1912.”

Wikipedia article William Harrison Sapp House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Lancaster County · listed in 1990 · 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. Sapp, William Harrison, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. SC 522 and SC 51, Tradesville, 29720
  • When was it listed? January 1990
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Lancaster County MPS
  • Census division. Lancaster
  • Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 89002141 - 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

160 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 160 fires within 5 miles of William Harrison Sapp House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 432 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 10 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 burning67
Missing data/not specified/undetermined46
Equipment and vehicle use17
Arson/incendiarism10
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Natural5
Smoking4
Fireworks2

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 1999Debris and open burning10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreNorth Carolina Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.4 acresNorth Carolina Forest ServiceHOT FENCE
25 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Carolina Forest Servicenot named
14 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Carolina Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNorth Carolina Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Lancaster County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of William Harrison Sapp House: 3 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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
Belk MineGoldPast Producer
Belk MineGoldPast Producer
Nesbitt MineGoldPast Producer1800, 1875
Nesbitt MineGoldOccurrence

Every working recorded in Lancaster County

Storms near this property

16 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tradesville, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1999 and 2020: 7 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 3 flash flood. 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
April 2011HailTradesville$40,000Public reported golfball size hail covering the ground at the M and R Mini Mart.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindTradesville$2,000EMD reported a few trees down.
September 2012Flash FloodTradesville$2,000Public reported that Tradesville road was flooded and impassable.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindTradesville$2,000Sheriff reported a couple of trees down in the Tradesville area on Shiloh Unity and Quiet Acres roads.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindTradesville$1,000Public reported very strong winds just southwest of Tradesville bending over a flag pole and putting a swing set up into a tree.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindTradesville$500Public reported very strong winds taking down a flag pole and putting a swing set up into a tree.
May 2020Flash FloodTradesville$100Trained spotter reported flooding, south of Tradesville, on Old Camden Monroe Hwy, between Shiloh Unity Rd and SC Hwy 9, where the road crosses North Branch Wildcat Creek. Reported relayed via social media with a video showing the flooding. Times estimated.
September 2018Flash FloodTradesville$100Henderson Rd was washed out and impassable due to flooding. Times approximate.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindTradesville-Power poles and tree limbs down. Report via mPING. Time estimated.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindTradesville-Trees down on McTown Rd. Time estimated.
June 2014HailTradesville-Highway Patrol reported nickel size hail in Tradesville.
June 2014HailTradesville-Public reported quarter size or larger hail just southwest of Tradesville on Tradesville Road.
June 2014HailTradesville-Hail up to dime sized reported at a convenience store off of SC Hwy 9 near Tradesville.
June 2007HailTradesville-Public reported penny size hail.
May 2003HailTradesville-Fire Dept. reported 3/4 inch hail.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindTradesville-Newspaper reported trees and powerlines down between Tradesville, Antioch and Bufford.

Every storm recorded in Lancaster 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Buford's Massacre Site4.0 miles1990
Thomas Walker Huey House4.9 miles1990

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 89002141 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lancaster CountyAll 29 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.