Colding-Walker House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“Colding-Walker House, also known as Robwood, is a historic home located at Appleton, Allendale County, South Carolina. The original section was built about 1853, and is a side gable roofed residence on a raised brick basement.”
Wikipedia article Colding-Walker House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Allendale County · listed in 1998 · 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 4 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Colding--Walker House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. SC 52, Appleton, 29810
When was it listed? April 1998
Category. building
Census division. Allendale
National Register reference number. 98000415 - 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

137 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 137 fires within 5 miles of Colding-Walker House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 689 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 33 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	47
Arson/incendiarism	33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Natural	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	7
Smoking	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
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.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
30 September 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2005	Debris and open burning	15 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2018	Natural	10 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2019	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 2014	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 August 2006	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
19 August 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Allendale County

Storms near this property

10 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Appleton, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2004 and 2022: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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
April 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Appleton	$25,000	A large tree fell on a house near Appleton.
July 2013	Flash Flood	Appleton	$1,000	Concord Church Road was closed near Appleton Road due to flash flooding.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Appleton	$500	South Carolina Highway Patrol reports a tree down and in the roadway at the intersection of Revolutionary Road and Highway 3.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Appleton	$500	One tree down on Route 125.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Appleton	$500	The public reported numerous large tree limbs in and near Appleton, South Carolina.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Appleton	-	Multiple trees were reported down on Highway 125 near Appleton Road.
March 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Appleton	-	Allendale County dispatch reported a tree on fire lying on downed power lines on Appleton Road.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Appleton	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees.
May 2006	Hail	Appleton	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Appleton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Allendale 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
Allendale County Courthouse	4.0 miles	2007
Roselawn	4.2 miles	1976
Allendale Training School	4.7 miles	2022
Gravel Hill Plantation	5.3 miles	1976
Erwin House	6.6 miles	1976
Antioch Christian Church	7.1 miles	1977

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000415 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Allendale 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.
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.