BlockFrom the record
One of 8 National Register listings published here for Gray County · listed in 2006 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
McLean Commercial Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Roughly bounded by Railroad, Rowe, Second and Gray Sts., McLean, 79057
- When was it listed? December 2006
- Category. building
- Also known as. Route 66 in Texas MPS
- Census division. McLean
- Architectural style. skyscraper
- National Register reference number. 06001153 - 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
9 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of McLean Commercial Historic District between 2007 and 2018, burning about 1,325 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE CR BB & 27 |
| 11 July 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CO RD Z & GRAY CO LINE |
| 11 July 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | COUNTY LINE RD/CR-Z |
| 2 February 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 300 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 4 November 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 250 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 27 November 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CO LINE WEST Y |
| 9 January 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRAY COUNTRY LINE N |
| 5 January 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 200 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this property
14 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McLean, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 10 hail, 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1995 | Tornado (F4) | McLean | $200,000 | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Tornado (F2) | McLean | $100,000 | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | McLean | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Tornado (F2) | McLean | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Tornado (F0) | Mclean | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | McLean | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | McLean | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | McLean | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | McLean | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | McLean | - | no account filed |
| August 1993 | Hail | McLean | - | no account filed |
| May 1993 | Hail | McLean | - | no account filed |
| September 1993 | Hail | McLean | - | no account filed |
| September 1993 | Hail | McLean | - | 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 06001153 in Record Group 79. |
| Gray County | All 8 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.