Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
From the record
“The Florence Robinson Cottage, also known as the Florence Robinson Building and the Alumni Heritage House, is a structure on the National Register of Historic Places located in Wood County, Texas on the campus of Jarvis Christian University outside Hawkins, Texas. The cottage is in the Modern Movement Style.”
Wikipedia article Florence Robinson Cottage, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 4 National Register listings published here for Wood County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.00000453- 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
257 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 257 fires within 5 miles of Florence Robinson Cottage
between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,364 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 11 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
159
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
52
Arson/incendiarism
11
Power generation/transmission/distribution
11
Equipment and vehicle use
9
Recreation and ceremony
5
Natural
4
Railroad operations and maintenance
2
Smoking
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
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 federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Florence Robinson Cottage: 1 producer.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Hawkins, the town this property stands in, in 39 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 20 hail, 16 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado.
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.
This is a continuation of the Smith County tornado, which crossed Highway 80 between Brimley Lake and Lake Hawkins, snapping and uprooting additional trees. The Ozarka Water Bottling Plant north of Hawkins sustained major roof damage consistent with EF-1 winds estimated between 95-105 mph. More trees were snapped and uprooted as the tornado continued northeast and passed just east of Holly Lake and into Upshur County.
Thunderstorm remained stationary over the same area for nearly 1 hour. Hail to the size of baseballs for for nearly 40 minutes totally stripping trees and vegetation. No reports of damage to property was received.
Heavy rains resulted in flooding in and around Hawkins. Many roads were flooded and impassable. Cumby road was washed out and many cars were stalled in the high water in town.
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.
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.
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