Obediah Shirley House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The Obediah Shirley House, sometimes referred to as the Obediah and Jennie Shirley Home is a historic farmhouse with a fieldstone foundation, located near Honea Path, South Carolina. Its construction was completed in several phases in order to accommodate the Shirley family as their family grew in number.”
Wikipedia article Obediah Shirley House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Anderson County · listed in 1999 · 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. Shirley, Obediah, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Bagwell Rd., Honea Path, 29654
When was it listed? September 1999
Category. building
Census division. Honea Path
National Register reference number. 99000201 - 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

150 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 150 fires within 5 miles of Obediah Shirley House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 579 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 23 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	56
Debris and open burning	48
Arson/incendiarism	23
Smoking	8
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Natural	3
Fireworks	1
Recreation and ceremony	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 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2020	Debris and open burning	10 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 1999	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 August 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Anderson 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 Obediah Shirley House: 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite, Mica. 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
	Lakeside Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite	Producer	Metamorphic
	Welborn Prospect	Mica	Prospect

Every working recorded in Anderson County

Storms near this property

25 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Honea Path, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1997 and 2017: 15 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 tornado, 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
February 1997	Tornado (F1)	Honea Path	$30,000	no account filed
April 2017	Tornado (EF0)	Honea Path	$1,000	NWS Storm survey found a small area of tornado damage within a wider swatch of less intense downburst damage. The tornado briefly touched down off Brook St on the southwest side of honea path. Numerous trees were blown down, while a patio and carport structure were also damaged.
April 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Honea Path	$1,000	Several trees blown down and shingles off a roof.
October 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Honea Path	-	Public reported trees blown down on Will Hanks Rd. Also a report of minor structural damage in this area.
January 2014	Flash Flood	Honea Path	-	Pea Creek came up again, flooding and closing James Cox Road for a second time during the day.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Honea Path	-	Multiple large tree limbs were blown down along Sauer Farm Rd.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Honea Path	-	Several trees were blown down along Austin Rd.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Honea Path	-	Several large tree limbs were blown down.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Honea Path	-	A few trees were blown down to the north of the town of Honea Path.
March 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Honea Path	-	Large tree limbs snapped.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Honea Path	-	A tree was blown down on Austin Rd and another tree was blown down on highway 20 in the Craytonville community.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Honea Path	-	A few trees blown down across the city.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Honea Path	-	Large tree limbs were blown down onto highway 76.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Honea Path	-	Several trees were blown down.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Honea Path	-	Large tree limbs were blown down.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Honea Path	-	Some trees were blown down.
June 2013	Hail	Honea Path	-	no account filed
March 2012	Hail	Honea Path	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Honea Path	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Honea Path	-	no account filed
March 2008	Hail	Honea Path	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Honea Path	-	no account filed
February 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Honea Path	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Honea Path	-	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Honea Path	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Anderson 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

3 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
Belton Standpipe	6.6 miles	1987
Chamberlain-Kay House	6.6 miles	1980
Belton Depot	6.7 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99000201 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Anderson County	All 26 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.