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One of 9 National Register listings published here for Hunt County · listed in 2006 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Blanton School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 610 Witt St., Wolfe City, 75496
- When was it listed? September 2006
- Category. building
- Also known as. Rosenwald School Building Program in Texas MPS
- Census division. Wolfe City
- National Register reference number. 06000823 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
99 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Blanton School between 1998 and 2020, burning about 887 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 32 |
| Debris and open burning | 32 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 26 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| 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 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE ON SIDE OF ROAD HWY 34 |
| 9 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 1023 WOLFE CITY |
| 9 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | 21 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WEBB HILL |
| 5 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 29 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | TURKEY CREEK |
| 27 September 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 25 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HICKORY CREEK |
| 23 September 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | 6.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this property
26 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wolfe City, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 2 flash flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wolfe City | $30,000 | A mobile home was moved off it's blocks, a barn was destroyed, the concession stand of a ball field was destroyed, fences were blown down, and numerous trees were blown down. |
| October 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wolfe City | $15,000 | The roof was blown off the Wolfe City Fire Department building and another building downtown. Trees were also blown over by the thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2007 | Flash Flood | Wolfe City | $5,000 | Major street flooding was reported in Wolfe City, and a high water rescue was required in Cash. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Wolfe City | $2,000 | Nickel to quarter size hail was covering the ground in Wolfe City. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wolfe City | $2,000 | Power lines were blown down by high winds. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wolfe City | $2,000 | Power lines were blown down by high winds. |
| May 2000 | Tornado (F0) | Wolfe City | $2,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down by a brief tornado. |
| February 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wolfe City | $2,000 | Thunderstorms blew the roof off a sheet metal carport. |
| March 2025 | Hail | Wolfe City | - | HAM Radio reported quarter sized hail in Wolfe City near Hanna St and Jackson St. |
| March 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wolfe City | - | A handheld anemometer measured a 67 mph wind gust. |
| May 2021 | Hail | Wolfe City | - | A public report indicated half-dollar sized hail near Wolfe City, TX. |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wolfe City | - | Large tree limbs downed. |
| September 2006 | Flood | Wolfe City | - | Minor flooding occurred on secondary roads in the northern part of the county. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wolfe City | - | Thunderstorm winds downed powerlines. No dollar estimate of damage was provided. |
| April 1997 | Flash Flood | Wolfe City | - | Several roads were flooded in and around town. |
| March 2017 | Hail | Wolfe City | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Wolfe City | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Wolfe City | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Wolfe City | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Wolfe City | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Wolfe City | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wolfe City | - | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wolfe City | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wolfe City | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Hail | Wolfe City | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wolfe City | - | 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 06000823 in Record Group 79. |
| Hunt County | All 9 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.