Toole Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

One of 2 National Register listings published here for Sabine County · listed in 2002 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listing status. The Park Service records this property as Removed.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 202 Main St., Hemphill, 75948
When was it listed? December 2002
Category. building
Census division. Hemphill
National Register reference number. 02001568 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

179 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 179 fires within 5 miles of Toole Building between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,741 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 15 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	109
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Arson/incendiarism	15
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Power generation/transmission/distribution	10
Natural	6
Smoking	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Other causes	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
30 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
30 September 1992	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
25 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 77
25 September 1995	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
21 September 1993	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
2 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WOODVILLE - 180
2 September 2000	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	National Forests And Grasslands In Texas	BEER STORE
18 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Sabine County

Storms near this property

54 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hemphill, the town this property stands in, in 54 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 41 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 5 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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	Thunderstorm Wind	Hemphill	1 killed, $50,000	A tree fell on the home of an elderly woman in Hemphill Texas. The tree killed the woman inside her home.
May 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Hemphill	1 hurt	Flying debris injured a girl at Mill Creek Park at the Sam Rayburn Reservoir.
February 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Hemphill	$16,000,000	Hundreds of trees were uprooted across the area including several that fell across homes and automobiles. Nearly all secondary and Farm to Market roads were closed. Over 300 million board feet of timber was destroyed accounting for 6 million dollars in private timber loss while 10 million dollars damage occurred to homes and property.
March 2008	Flash Flood	Hemphill	$2,000,000	Highway 87 was flooded north of Hemphill, Texas. Many roads across the northern part of the county were flooded. Many roads and bridges also washed out. Numerous homes and businesses were flooded throughout the county as well.
April 1993	Tornado (F2)	Hemphill	$500,000	Several houses were blown down.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Hemphill	$5,000	A large pine tree was blown down onto a barn.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Hemphill	$5,000	Numerous large trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Hemphill	$50	Thunderstorm winds blew down a large pine tree which fell across a barn.
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Hemphill	-	A large pine tree was downed in Hemphill.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Hemphill	-	Numerous trees and power lines downed across Sabine County.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Hemphill	-	Vehicle struck a downed tree, which had fallen across Highway 83 just east of Hemphill.
January 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Hemphill	-	Large limbs were blown down near the intersection of Highway 3382 and Old Sabinetown Road in the Lowe's Creek community.
May 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Hemphill	-	A couple of trees and power lines were downed in Hemphill. A tree was downed on Highway 103. Trees were also downed on Highway 87 South about 4 miles south of Hemphill.
May 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Hemphill	-	Trees were downed in the Indian Mounds community.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Hemphill	-	A large tree was blown down across Highway 184 near Hemphill.
April 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Hemphill	-	Trees were downed just northeast of Hemphill.
May 2019	Flash Flood	Hemphill	-	High water covered Beckcom Road near Worth Street, and also along Railroad Street in Hemphill.
December 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Hemphill	-	Trees down on Highway 83 near Hemphill.
January 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Hemphill	-	Trees down in Hemphill.
March 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Hemphill	-	Several trees were blown down in and near Hemphill.
August 2017	Flash Flood	Hemphill	-	Arnold and Barber Streets in Hemphill were closed due to high water.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Hemphill	-	Numerous trees were downed across the entire county. Some of the roadways impacted included FM944, FM103, FM1592, FM2024 and FM83.
March 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Hemphill	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts knocked down numerous trees and powerlines across all of Sabine County. Law enforcement officials described the damage as major with all the trees across county roads and highways. Some trees fell on homes and automobiles with power outages widespread across the county.
December 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Hemphill	-	Numerous trees and powerlines were downed throughout the county with over 27000 people without power at one time.
December 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Hemphill	-	Trees and powerlines were downed in Hemphill, Texas. Traffic light was also downed at Hwy. 21 and Hwy. 87.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Hemphill	-	Trees were downed near Hemphill, Texas on Hwy. 87 and near Pineland on Hwy. 96 south.
December 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Hemphill	-	Trees were downed at Hwy. 2024 and Tatum Road.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Hemphill	-	Several trees and powerlines were downed across the county.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Hemphill	-	A tree was blown down along Hwy 83 east near Hemphill, Texas.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Hemphill	-	Multiple reports of downed trees throughout the county.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Hemphill	-	Numerous trees were downed across the eastern portion of the county.
December 2006	Flash Flood	Hemphill	-	Excessive heavy rainfall resulted in numerous city streets under water.
October 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Hemphill	-	A few large trees were downed in town.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Hemphill	-	Several trees downed in Hemphill and the Bronson area.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Hemphill	-	Trees down on FM 3382.
April 2004	Hail	Hemphill	-	Hail stripped the bark off some trees. Some hail was still on the ground the next morning in Geneva.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Hemphill	-	Trees downed near Milam.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Hemphill	-	Trees and power lines downed county wide.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Hemphill	-	Several trees down across Hwy 21.
June 2001	Flash Flood	Hemphill	-	Flash flooding from Tropical Storm Allison resulted in high water over Hwy 87 south of town closing the roadway.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Hemphill	-	Numerous trees down.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Hemphill	-	Numerous trees down.
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Hemphill	-	Several large trees down in town.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Hemphill	-	Trees and powerlines down.
September 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Hemphill	-	Numerous trees down along highway 83.
March 1993	Hail	Hemphill	-	Golfball-size hail was reported covering the ground near Hemphill.
March 2008	Hail	Hemphill	-	no account filed
March 2002	Hail	Hemphill	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Hemphill	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Hemphill	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Hemphill	-	no account filed
March 1998	Hail	Hemphill	-	no account filed
March 1998	Hail	Hemphill	-	no account filed
May 1997	Hail	Hemphill	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sabine 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 02001568 in Record Group 79.
Sabine County	All 2 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.