BlockFrom the record
One of 10 National Register listings published here for Fannin County · listed in 2001 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Lake Fannin Organizational Camp
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.
The listing
- Address. 1 mi. W jct of Cty. Rd. 2025 and State Farm-to-Market Rd. 2554, Caddo National Grasslands, Duplex, 75447
- When was it listed? June 2001
- Category. district
- Census division. Ravenna-Telephone
- National Register reference number. 01000611 - 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
79 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Lake Fannin Organizational Camp between 1998 and 2020, burning about 983 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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 | 43 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 21 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 19 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 19 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 10 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | National Forests And Grasslands In Texas | LAKE FANNIN |
| 1 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BRUSHFIRE |
| 7 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BUENA VISTA TURF FARM |
| 22 August 2020 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GEORGE & PATRICIA REID |
Mines and quarries near this property
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Lake Fannin Organizational Camp: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bryan County Sand Co | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Unknown Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
5 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Duplex, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Duplex | $65,000 | A National Weather Service damage survey team found evidence of an EF-0 tornado across portions of northern Fannin County. The tornado began near the Duplex community, where it damaged several trees and a roof on a church. The tornado then moved northeast, damaging two homes, and uprooting several trees along Fannin County roads. |
| April 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Duplex | $40,000 | A narrow strip of wind damage about a 100 yards wide and a half-mile long was located near FM 273 and CR 2100. Numerous trees were blown across roads and two barns sustained moderate damage. |
| May 2021 | Hail | Duplex | $20,000 | A trained spotter reported 2-inch diameter hail covering the road near the intersection of FM 273 and CR 2200 near the city of Ivanhoe, TX. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Duplex | $3,000 | Large trees were down on County Road 2030. |
| April 1996 | Hail | Duplex | - | 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.
Listed places nearby
2 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | State Highway 78 Bridge at the Red River | 2.7 miles | 1996 |
| State Highway 78 Bridge at the Red River | 2.7 miles | 1996 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 01000611 in Record Group 79. |
| Fannin County | All 10 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.