New Market

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“New Market, also known as the McDonald-Rhodus-Lesesne House, is a historic home and national historic district located near Greeleyville, Williamsburg County, South Carolina. It encompasses 2 contributing buildings and 2 contributing sites.”
Wikipedia article New Market (Greeleyville, South Carolina), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Williamsburg County · listed in 1998 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. SC 375, approx. 5 mi. S of Greeleyville, Greeleyville, 29056
When was it listed? March 1998
Category. district
Census division. Greeleyville
National Register reference number. 98000290 - 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

721 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 721 fires within 5 miles of New Market between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,900 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 247 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	270
Arson/incendiarism	247
Debris and open burning	166
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Smoking	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Natural	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
8 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2007	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2005	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Williamsburg County

Storms near this property

18 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greeleyville, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1999 and 2019: 8 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2015	Lightning	Greeleyville	$500,000	Lightning struck Mt. Zion AME church in Greeleyville. The 8000 sq ft church caught fire and was a total loss.
August 2004	Flash Flood	Greeleyville	$400,000	Heavy rains associated with the remnants of Tropical Storm Gaston amounted to around 10 inches in about 3 to 4 hours over western Williamsburg County. This resulted in widespread road closures across western portions of the county.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Greeleyville	$25,000	Widespread tree and power line damage was reported along Highway 521 from near Greeleyville to Trio Road. The time of the damage was estimated based on radar data.
April 2011	Hail	Greeleyville	$3,000	Hail to the size of golf balls was reported by a trained spotter.
May 2014	Hail	Greeleyville	$1,250	Golf ball size hail was reported on Eddie Woods Road.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Greeleyville	$1,000	Several trees down on Easler Hwy and Manning Hwy.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Greeleyville	$1,000	A tree was reported down along Society Street.
July 2013	Flood	Greeleyville	-	Flooding was reported on Tucker Street.
March 2008	Hail	Greeleyville	-	The Emergency Manager reported one-inch hail.
June 2007	Hail	Greeleyville	-	Golf ball size hail fell on Coleman Road.
June 2007	Hail	Greeleyville	-	Penny size hail was reported.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Greeleyville	-	Trees down on Hwy 521.
November 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Greeleyville	-	The Williamsburg county 911 center reported numerous trees downed.
October 2005	Hail	Greeleyville	-	Penny size hail was reported.
May 2001	Hail	Greeleyville	-	Trained spotter reported quarter size hail.
April 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Greeleyville	-	Power company dispatch reported trees down on power lines.
October 2002	Heavy Rain	Greeleyville	-	no account filed
February 1999	Hail	Greeleyville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Williamsburg 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	McCollum-Murray House	3.0 miles	2006
	Clarkson Farm Complex	3.6 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000290 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Williamsburg County	All 12 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.