BlockFrom the record
One of 6 National Register listings published here for Burnet County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Briggs State Bank
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Loop 308, approx. 0.5 mi. N of jct. with US 183, Briggs, 78608
- When was it listed? August 2000
- Category. building
- Census division. Briggs
- National Register reference number. 00000885 - 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
55 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Briggs State Bank between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,022 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 | 23 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 34 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FENCE POST |
| 29 August 2011 | Debris and open burning | 300 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BRIGGS |
| 19 August 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 12-0092 |
| 16 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2950 BCR 101 |
| 15 August 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | LUKE |
| 15 August 2012 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HICKS 221 |
| 15 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ATKINSON CR 222 |
| 7 July 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this property
10 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Briggs, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Briggs | $500 | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 40 mph that knocked down some tree limbs. |
| May 2025 | Tornado (EFU) | Briggs | - | Based on spotter footage, a tornado formed over open country just northwest of Briggs, and may at one point have lifted and reformed. The tornado occurred in an area that was not accessible by a National Weather Service survey team. The location and time is estimated based on radar data and spotter accounts. The width of this tornado is not known, and the entry is forced by the software. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Briggs | - | A thunderstorm produced ping pong ball size hail in Briggs. |
| May 2014 | Funnel Cloud | Briggs | - | A thunderstorm produced a funnel cloud which remained above the ground. |
| February 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Briggs | - | A resident reported a wind gust of 67 mph measured with a Davis weather station. |
| May 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Briggs | - | A third small and short-lived tornado was spotted by a Burnet County Sheriff's Deputy as it crossed SH183 southeast of Briggs. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Briggs | - | Observer reports wind gusts in excess of 52 knots. |
| March 2013 | Hail | Briggs | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Briggs | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Briggs | - | no account filed |
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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 00000885 in Record Group 79. |
| Burnet County | All 6 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.