Webb-Coleman House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“Webb-Coleman House, also known as Christian's Post Office, is a historic home located near Chappells, Saluda County, South Carolina. It was built between 1800 and 1825, and is a five-bay, Federal style farmhouse.”
Wikipedia article Webb-Coleman House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Saluda County · listed in 1992 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listed as. Webb--Coleman House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 2 mi. S of Chappells, .3 mi. E of SC 39, at jct. of three dirt rds., Chappells, 29037
When was it listed? April 1992
Category. building
Census division. North Saluda
Architectural style. Federal architecture
National Register reference number. 92000365 - 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

75 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Webb-Coleman House between 1992 and 2018, burning about 347 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	33
Debris and open burning	16
Arson/incendiarism	10
Natural	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Other causes	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Fireworks	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
9 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	8.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
12 August 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 July 2014	Other causes	24 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Saluda County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Webb-Coleman House: 6 unknowns, 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Bauknight Shale Pit	Clay	Producer	Metamorphic
Hopkins Shale Pit	Clay	Unknown	Metamorphic
Ninety Six Mine East	Clay	Unknown	Metamorphic
Saluda County Mine	Clay	Unknown	Sedimentary
Saluda County Mine	Clay	Unknown	Sedimentary
Saluda County Mine	Clay	Past Producer
Saluda Mine	Clay	Producer
Topelo Mines	Clay	Producer
Tupelo Mine	Clay	Unknown
Werts Shale Pit	Clay	Unknown	Metamorphic

Every working recorded in Saluda 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92000365 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Saluda 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.
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.