Aldridge Sawmill

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Jasper County · listed in 2001 · category: Site.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Angelina National Forest., S end of Forest System Rd., Zavalla, 75951
When was it listed? March 2001
Category. site
Also known as. Early Logging Industry in East Texas MPS
Census division. Jasper
National Register reference number. 01000209 - 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

180 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 180 fires within 5 miles of Aldridge Sawmill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,184 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 86 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
Arson/incendiarism	86
Debris and open burning	35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30
Natural	14
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Fireworks	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
9 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 876
8 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 870
7 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
7 September 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	C-87
5 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 674
5 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	not named

Every fire recorded in Jasper County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Aldridge Sawmill: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silica. 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
	Unknown	Silica	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Jasper 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01000209 in Record Group 79.
Jasper County	All 7 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.