Built in 1893. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
From the record
“Peeples House is a historic home located at Varnville, Hampton County, South Carolina. It was built between 1889 and 1893, and is an L-shaped, two-story, five-bay, Italianate-style dwelling.”
Wikipedia article Hattie J. Peeples House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 16 National Register listings published here for Hampton County · listed in 1992 · category: Building · built in 1893.
National Register reference number.92001299- 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
339 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 339 fires within 5 miles of Hattie J. Peeples House
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 834 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 63 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
119
Debris and open burning
113
Arson/incendiarism
63
Equipment and vehicle use
18
Natural
13
Misuse of fire by a minor
8
Recreation and ceremony
2
Smoking
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Varnville, the town this property stands in, in 34 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 24 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 tornado, 2 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.
A National Weather Service Storm Survey Team confirmed an EF-0 tornado with an estimated maximum wind speed of 82 mph in Hampton County, South Carolina. The weak tornado initially touched down just west of Pepper Street, then tracked northeast across U.S. 278, snapping and uprooting trees and causing minor roof damage to one home near the intersection of Oak Street and Howard Street. The tornado then continued a northeast path across a mostly wooded area, where it snapped and uprooted trees, before ending in an open field just east of the intersection of Papas Road and Mill Pond Road, where it snapped and uprooted a few more trees, overturned utility trailers, and threw a small grain bin.
Two trees were reported down near Varnille and Hampton, South Carolina. The first tree was reported down on Hickory Hill Road between Pocotaligo Road and Two Sisters Road. The second tree was reported down on 3rd Street Northeast.
A trained weather spotter reported a weak rope Tornado near Almeda, South Carolina. The Tornado was seen in contact with the ground for approximately 2 minutes. No damage resulted from the weak Tornado.
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.
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.
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