BlockFrom the record
One of 2 National Register listings published here for Upshur County · listed in 2005 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
John and Eva O'Bryne House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 1 site, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. O'Bryne, John and Eva, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. FM 1844, 0.7 mi. E of US 271, Union Grove, 75647
- When was it listed? May 2005
- Category. building
- Census division. Gladewater
- National Register reference number. 05000383 - 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
708 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 708 fires within 5 miles of John and Eva O'Bryne House between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,995 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 33 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 | 353 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 172 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 56 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 41 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 33 |
| Smoking | 20 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 12 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 600 S. LOOP 485 |
| 9 September 2011 | Smoking | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | BINGHAM |
| 9 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LINDEN - 230 |
| 8 September 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1802 N. WHITE OAK RD |
| 8 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | PINE 15-318 |
| 8 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 6177 |
| 8 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | STEWART ST |
| 8 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2685 BEFORE GLADEWATER CITY LIMITS |
Storms near this property
20 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Union Grove, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 9 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 3 flash flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 1998 | Hail | Union Grove | $250,000 | Baseball size hail broke numerous windows at the Union Grove School and damaged the roof. |
| February 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Union Grove | - | Damage reported to two residential homes and a boat house on Lake Gladewater. |
| February 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Union Grove | - | Tree downed on a power line at the intersection of Pyeatt Drive and North Point Pleasant Road. |
| February 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Union Grove | - | Power lines downed north of Gladewater, reported via mPING. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Union Grove | - | Quarter size hail reported in the Union Grove community. |
| August 2022 | Flash Flood | Union Grove | - | Several roads flooded and closed near Gladewater. |
| August 2022 | Flash Flood | Union Grove | - | Flooding forced the closure of North Phillips Spring Road, with several vehicles stranded in the high water. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Union Grove | - | A 50 foot tall oak tree with a 16 inch wide trunk was blown down across the 5000 block of East Lake Drive in the Union Grove community. |
| February 2020 | Flash Flood | Union Grove | - | East Lake Drive at McCoy Creek was flooded and impassable. |
| May 2017 | Tornado (EF0) | Union Grove | - | An EF-0 tornado with maximum estimated winds of 65-75 mph touched down along North White Oak Road on the edge of the Union Grove incorporated limits and crossed Seagull Road before entering Northern Gregg County. The tornado intensified into an EF-1 tornado shortly after it crossed over into Gregg County across Morgan Road west of East Mountain Road. Several large tree limbs were snapped from the tops of trees along North White Oak Road, Seagull Road, and Morgan Road. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Union Grove | - | A large hardwood tree was uprooted on West Gay Avenue in North Gladewater. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Union Grove | - | Large branches were blown down across a driveway on East Lake Drive adjacent to Lake Gladewater. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Union Grove | - | Large branches were blown down along Phillip Springs Road. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Union Grove | - | Estimated wind gust in the Union Grove community. |
| May 2011 | Funnel Cloud | Union Grove | - | A funnel cloud was observed from a wall cloud just northwest of Gladewater, Texas. However, no known touchdowns were noted. |
| November 2011 | Hail | Union Grove | - | Hail was reported in the Union Grove community. |
| February 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Union Grove | - | Trees and powerlines were toppled across the area including one that blocked U.S. Hwy 80. |
| April 2014 | Hail | Union Grove | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Union Grove | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Union Grove | - | 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 05000383 in Record Group 79. |
| Upshur 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.