BlockFrom the record
One of 12 National Register listings published here for Bowie County · listed in 2002 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Garland Community School Teacherage
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. TX 2, 2.5 mi. W of Dekalb, Dekalb, 75559
- When was it listed? March 2002
- Category. building
- Census division. De Kalb
- Architectural style. American Craftsman
- National Register reference number. 02000146 - 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
291 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 291 fires within 5 miles of Garland Community School Teacherage between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,441 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 29 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 | 196 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 32 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 29 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 16 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 9 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 9 September 1994 | Smoking | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 7 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 528 |
| 7 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GARLAND |
| 6 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | NORTH |
| 5 September 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | WINDELL |
| 5 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | OAK GROVE |
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 02000146 in Record Group 79. |
| Bowie County | All 12 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.