Robinson-Hiller House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The Robinson-Hiller House in Chapin, Lexington County, South Carolina, was built in 1902. It is significant as a Queen Anne house and for being associated with Charles Plumber Robinson (1867-1944), a businessman who founded C.P.”
Wikipedia article Robinson-Hiller House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 56 National Register listings published here for Lexington 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Robinson--Hiller House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 113 Virginia St., Chapin, 29036
When was it listed? May 1998
Category. building
Census division. Chapin
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number. 98000420 - 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

169 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 169 fires within 5 miles of Robinson-Hiller House between 1992 and 2019, burning about 279 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 6 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	84
Debris and open burning	45
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Arson/incendiarism	6
Natural	4
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Other causes	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 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Lexington County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Robinson-Hiller House: 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Kyanite, Pyrophyllite, Kyanite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Little Mountain Kyn Occurrence	Pyrophyllite, Kyanite	Unknown	Pyrophyllite, Kyanite
	Little Mtn Deposit	Kyanite	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Lexington County

Storms near this property

60 of 68 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chapin, the town this property stands in, in 68 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 52 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Chapin	1 hurt	Sheriff reported trees down.
July 2012	Hail	Chapin	$65,000	Public reported golfball size hail causing damage to roofs and vehicles and covering much of the ground.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Chapin	$24,000	Highway Patrol reported numerous trees down from Chapin to Irmo.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Chapin	$8,000	Public reported trees and powerlines down at Chapin Elementary School.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Chapin	$8,000	Sheriff reported trees and powerlines down from Chapin to Irmo.
February 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Chapin	$5,000	no account filed
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Chapin	$4,000	NWS employee reported several trees down from Chapin to Ballentine to Irmo.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Chapin	$3,000	Police reported trees down on St. Peter Church Road.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Chapin	$2,000	Highway Patrol reported a couple of trees down on roads in the Chapin area.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Chapin	$2,000	Highway Patrol repoted trees down along I-26 near mile markers 98 and 99.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Chapin	$2,000	Sheriff reported a few trees down around the Chapin community.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Chapin	$2,000	Highway Partrol reported trees down along I-26 near the 89 mile marker on the west bound side.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Chapin	$2,000	Police department reported powerlines down on Chapin road.
August 2011	Hail	Chapin	$1,000	Hail the size of quarters mixed with hail the size of Ping Pong balls were reported. Also, trees were down in one yard..
February 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Chapin	$1,000	DOT found a couple of trees down near Gardenia and Archway Courts west of Chapin.
July 2020	Flash Flood	Chapin	$100	Public reported, via social media, flooding on Murray Lindler Rd near Old Bush River Rd at Lake Murray, and provided a photo.
July 2021	Hail	Chapin	$10	Trained spotter measured pea sized hail near the intersection of old Bush River Rd and Murray Lindler Rd.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Chapin	-	NWS storm survey near Little Mountain found straight line wind damage near Ponderosa Road, extending sporadically northeast towards Nursery Road. Several small trees and branches were down.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Chapin	-	Lexington County Communications Center reported power lines down along Brentwood Court. Time estimated by radar.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Chapin	-	SC Highway Patrol reports a tree down at the intersection of Amicks Ferry Rd and Lake Tide Dr. Time estimated by radar.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Chapin	-	Columbia news affiliate posted a picture from a viewer in Chapin of a large branch snapped off a tree. Time estimated by radar.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Chapin	-	SC Highway Patrol reported trees down near I-26 in Chapin.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Chapin	-	NWS Employee reported a large tree down in the woods on Broad River Road near Chapin Middle School.
September 2023	Hail	Chapin	-	Report from individual driving through the Town of Chapin of nickel to quarter sized hail.
September 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Chapin	-	Lexington County EM reported downed trees at the intersection of I-26 and Columbia Ave. Time estimated by radar.
October 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Chapin	-	A tree fell on a power line along Columbia Ave near Eagle Chase Ct in Chapin.
August 2022	Hail	Chapin	-	Convenience store employee reported penny size hail at I-26 and Columbia Ave. Time estimated.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Chapin	-	DOT reported a tree down at Peak Street and Columbia Avenue. Time estimated by radar.
May 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Chapin	-	A microburst, with estimated wind speeds up to 80 mph, caused damage in the Melvin Park area. Partial roof and siding damage occurred to some homes near Chapin Elementary School. Several trees were also downed in that area, along with downed trees at Old Lexington Hwy and Sid Bickley Rd. Time estimated.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Chapin	-	Tree down in roadway at the intersection of Meadowlark Rd and Mountview Circle. Time estimated.
July 2020	Heavy Rain	Chapin	-	A CoCoRaHS observer just north of Crooked Creek Park in Chapin reported a 24 hour total rainfall amount, on the morning of Thursday July 2, 2020, of 4.86 inches. However, most, if not all, of that rain fell between 1300 EDT (1200 EST) and 1630 EDT (1530 EST) on Wednesday July 1, 2020.
February 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Chapin	-	SCDOT reported tree in the road on Interstate 26 westbound about 1 mile west of exit 91.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Chapin	-	SCHP reported tree in roadway on St. Peters Church Rd at Stevens Creek Rd.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Chapin	-	A line of severe thunderstorms produced widespread damaging winds, knocking down numerous trees over a large swath, many of which blocked roadways.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Chapin	-	Tree down on a home near the intersection of Long Pine Rd and John Kinards Ct.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Chapin	-	SCHP reported a tree in roadway on I-26 at mile marker 89.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Chapin	-	SCHP reported tree down on I-26 at mile marker 91.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Chapin	-	Trees down at Long Pine Rd and Strawfield Rd. Time estimated.
April 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Chapin	-	Several public reports of trees down around the town of Chapin.
September 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Chapin	-	SC Highway Patrol reported a tree down near the intersection of Columbia Ave. and Peak St.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Chapin	-	Trees down along St. Peters Church Rd from Lee Roy Frick Ln to Dreher Island Rd.
December 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Chapin	-	Highway Patrol reported trees down across Murray Lindler Road.
March 2012	Hail	Chapin	-	WIS-TV weather reported quarter size hail in Chapin.
September 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Chapin	-	Reported that several homes in the Chapin area had sidding removed from strong winds.
April 2009	Hail	Chapin	-	Post Office reported nickel size hail just west of Chapin from people who got their mail in the morning.
May 2009	Hail	Chapin	-	Public reported 3/4 inch hail on Chapin Road.
May 2009	Hail	Chapin	-	Public reporte quarter size hail in north Chapin.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Chapin	-	Emergency Manager reported several trees down in the Chapin area.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Chapin	-	Reported damage to a home from downed trees and large limbs.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Chapin	-	Chapin police and public reported trees down from Chapin to Friars Gate in Irmo. One tree was on a home in the Stoney Pointe Subdivision just south of Chapin.
March 2008	Hail	Chapin	-	SKYWARN spotter reported penny size hail.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Chapin	-	Reported power lines down in two areas of the town of Chapin.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Chapin	-	DOT reported trees dwon on Haltiwanger road.
February 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Chapin	-	Public reported many trees down in the Hilton area south of Chapin and a NWS employee reported several trees down on Eptien Landing road.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Chapin	-	Sheriff reported trees and powerlines down.
December 2005	Hail	Chapin	-	SKYWARN spotter reported 3/4 inch hail.
November 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Chapin	-	Sheriff reported scattered trees and powerlines down.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Chapin	-	Sheriff reported trees and powerlines down on Old Lexington Highway.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Chapin	-	NWS Storm Survey found several trees down on I-20 near Chapin.
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Chapin	-	EOC reported trees down on a home near Amicks Ferry Rd.

Every storm recorded in Lexington 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
	Chapin Commercial Historic District	0.3 miles	2019
	Ballentine-Shealy House	4.5 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000420 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lexington County	All 56 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.