Monroe Shops

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

One of 159 National Register listings published here for Dallas County · listed in 2007 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 2111 S. Corinth St., Dallas, 75216
When was it listed? March 2007
Category. building
Census division. Southwest Dallas
National Register reference number. 07000130 - 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

369 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 369 fires within 5 miles of Monroe Shops between 2011 and 2016, burning about 69 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	310
Equipment and vehicle use	34
Debris and open burning	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Arson/incendiarism	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	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	2700 SOUTHERLAND
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	PERRYTON
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	KIEST
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	WALL
6 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	6001-6099 MARVIN D LOVE
6 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	TRINIDAD
6 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	C HAWN
6 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	HAWKINS

Every fire recorded in Dallas County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Monroe Shops: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
General Portland Clay Pit	Clay	Producer
Eagle-Ford Cement Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
General Portland Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Dallas County

Storms near this property

60 of 208 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dallas, the town this property stands in, in 208 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 74 hail, 60 flash flood, 58 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado. The reports record 2 deaths and 22 injuries. 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 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Dallas	1 killed, 6 hurt, $10,000,000	Thunderstorm winds caused a crane collapse onto an apartment complex in the city of Dallas, TX, killing one person and injuring 6 others. The collapse also cause severe damage to an adjoining parking garage.
March 2008	Flash Flood	Dallas	1 killed, $150,000	Numerous streets were closed due to high water after four to six inches of rain fell across the county, including Loop 12 near White Rock Lake. Voluntary evacuations were in place for residents of DeSoto near Ten Mile Creek which overflowed its banks for the second time in less than four years. A total of sixteen roads were closed in the area. Another rescue was needed after a van stalled in high water near Lawnview Avenue and Military Parkway. There was widespread flooding in Lancaster with numerous homes flooded. Lancaster's fire department performed five high water rescues. Two teenagers were playing near a creek near Interstate 635 and Bruton Road when one of them was swept into the water and then into a drainage pipe. His body was recovered the next day.
April 1995	Tornado (F1)	Dallas	8 hurt, $6,000,000	The tornado first touched down just south of Irving and moved east-northeast before lifting just southwest of downtown Dallas. Major damage to apartment complexes was reported, and a large number of trees were uprooted. Two homes were destroyed and a business was heavily damaged. All injuries were minor.
October 1996	Tornado (F1)	Dallas	7 hurt, $3,000,000	no account filed
June 1999	Lightning	Dallas	1 hurt	A mailman was struck by lightning. He was knocked unconscious and sustained burns to his right arm, right leg, and both feet.
August 2022	Flash Flood	Dallas	$300,000,000	A public report indicated that 2 feet of water had entered an apartment complex in east Dallas, knocking the front door off of its hinges. Considerable flash flooding occurred in this area after around 10 inches of rain fell in just a few hours.
August 2022	Flash Flood	Dallas	$50,000,000	Reports started flooding in that many roads were flooded near the Interstate 30, Interstate 35E, and Interstate 45 interchanges. Vehicles were stranded, being pushed around by the flood waters, and high water rescues were required. Interstate 30 near Cesar Chavez Blvd was closed due to high water. Damage assessments after the event showed the extent of damage due to high water extended north across the city. This area took several hours to drain after the heavy rain ended. A total of up to 10 inches of rain was reported in this area.
February 2000	Hail	East Dallas	$20,000,000	Occurred 1 mile east of White Rock Lake.
March 1995	Hail	Dallas	$20,000,000	Large hail broke windows and damaged homes, businesses, and automobiles.
March 1995	Hail	South Dallas	$10,000,000	Large hail broke windows and damaged homes, businesses, and automobiles.
July 2004	Flash Flood	Dallas	$3,000,000	Many roads and highways were flooded and closed, and homes were evacuated, especially in south Dallas where over 13 inches of rain fell in 12 hours. There were over 80 high water rescues in the county.
May 1999	Lightning	Dallas	$1,200,000	Lightning started a fire that destroyed a home.
June 2012	Hail	East Dallas	$400,000	Large hail stones damaged the iconic Midway sign at the State Fair of Dallas. Fifty-five of the long custom-made glass tubes in the sign were shattered and had to be replaced. Also, the star on top of the sign was broken. The damage was estimated around $400,000.
August 2012	Flash Flood	Dallas	$200,000	Hall Street by Baylor Hospital in Dallas was flooded due to flash flooding. One fire truck and several vehicles parked on the street stalled in this area. Water also inundated the hospital parking garage where about 20 vehicles were damaged by the rising waters. Rainfall totals as high as 2-2.25 in 30 minutes were measured during the heavy rain event.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Dallas	$200,000	Thunderstorm winds caused major roof damage to 200 apartment units in northeast Dallas. Thunderstorm winds also blew out windows and downed trees.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Dallas	$150,000	Over 1,000 city trees were blown down by high winds.
June 2012	Hail	East Dallas	$100,000	Golf ball sized hail was reported near Interstate 30 and Samuel Blvd.
May 1999	Lightning	Dallas	$100,000	Lightning started a fire that destroyed a house.
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Dallas	$100,000	no account filed
June 2020	Flood	Dallas	$50,000	Broadcast media showed pictures of vehicles mostly submerged beneath the Interstate 35 East overpass at Hi Line Drive and Victory Avenue in the city of Dallas, TX.
March 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Dallas	$50,000	Several social media reports indicated trees and fences knocked down across Dallas County along with a few reports of flipped tractor-trailers by thunderstorm winds.
August 2012	Flash Flood	Dallas	$50,000	Multiple roads were being closed in Downtown Dallas due to flash flooding. Rainfall totals as high as 2 in 30 minutes were measured during the heavy rain event.
April 2007	Tornado (EF0)	Dallas	$50,000	An area of concentrated wind damage was noted near the intersection of John West Road and Buckner Boulevard. Several trees, tree limbs, and fences were downed. Roof damage to apartments was also noted.
October 1993	Hail	Dallas	$50,000	In Dallas at 1718 CST, forty windows were broken at Parkland Hospital.
May 2011	Lightning	East Dallas	$45,000	Lightning struck a tree in the Fair Park area of Dallas. The tree split and part of the tree fell on a nearby home, crashing through the roof and causing a wall to collapse.
March 2006	Heavy Rain	Dallas	$35,000	Heavy rain collapsed the roof and walls of a gun range near Love Field.
May 2003	Flash Flood	Dallas	$25,000	A home and business was flooded, and a roof partially collapsed from water.
October 2007	Flash Flood	Dallas	$20,000	Several vehicles were submerged near Dallas as well as a soccer field. One high water rescue was required. In Garland, ten golfers were stranded on a golf course when a creek quickly rose. They were rescued by firefighters in a raft. Interstate 635 near Mesquite had 12 inches of water over the road.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Dallas	$20,000	Large tree blown down on top of home, causing considerable damage to a house in the Oak Cliff area.
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Dallas	$20,000	no account filed
June 2009	Flash Flood	Dallas	$15,000	The water was reported to be 3 feet deep near Fair Park in Dallas. The flooding was the result of training echoes over Dallas County.
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Dallas	$15,000	Strong winds blew the roof off an automobile body shop.
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Dallas	$15,000	no account filed
October 2015	Flash Flood	East Dallas	$10,000	A swift water rescue was reported via social media at Elsie Faye Heggins St. and Lyons St.
July 2007	Flash Flood	Dallas	$10,000	Streets were flooded and vehicles stranded.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Dallas	$10,000	High winds blew a utility pole down onto a car and the side of a church in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas.
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Dallas	$10,000	Strong winds blew down large tree limbs and damaged the roof of a house.
April 2007	Hail	Dallas	$10,000	no account filed
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Dallas	$10,000	no account filed
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	East Dallas	$9,000	Large tree branches were broken off and wood fences were knocked down just southeast of downtown Dallas.
March 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Dallas	$8,000	Thunderstorm winds were estimated near 65 mph near Interstate 35E and East 8th Street in Dallas.
May 2011	Hail	Dallas	$8,000	Ping pong ball sized hail was reported near downtown Dallas.
October 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Dallas	$8,000	Roof damage occurred to a warehouse on the 8700 block of Diplomacy Row. Time was estimated from radar.
November 2025	Flash Flood	Dallas	$5,000	Flooding closed the Interstate 30 eastbound ramp to Interstate 45. High water was also reported on Interstate 35E ramps in downtown Dallas.
June 2023	Hail	Dallas	$5,000	A storm spotter reported golf ball size hail on I-45 just south of I-30.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	East Dallas	$5,000	Sixty mph winds were estimated at East Grand Ave and Interstate 30 in Dallas.
February 2008	Hail	Dallas	$5,000	Golfball-size hail was reported at I-30 and Ferguson Road.
August 2006	Lightning	Dallas	$5,000	Lightning struck a home causing a fire to erupt at the residence. The extent of the damage was not known. There were no injuries.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Dallas	$5,000	5 inch tree limbs broken off causing widespread power outages.
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Dallas	$5,000	Large tree limbs down and power poles snapped.
September 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Dallas	$5,000	Power lines and power poles were blown down by high winds. One power pole was blown down onto acar and the side of a church in the Oak Cliff area of Dallas.
February 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Dallas	$5,000	Wind gust measured east of White Rock Lake. Numerous trees and carports were damaged.
April 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Dallas	$5,000	Trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds in downtown Dallas.
May 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Dallas	$5,000	A roof was damaged on a building near Harry Hines Blvd.
September 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Dallas	$5,000	A downburst blew down trees and signs, damaging a few homes.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Dallas	$3,000	At least one power line was blown down. The former Dallas City Manager was electrocuted and killed while investigating the downed power line.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Dallas	$2,000	Numerous large tree limbs, 6-8 inches in diameter blown down.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Dallas	$2,000	Trees were blown down by high winds.
September 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Dallas	$2,000	The wall of a car wash was blown down by high thunderstorm winds.
December 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Dallas	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds damaged a building and power lines.

Every storm recorded in Dallas 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.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Gospel Lighthouse Church	0.3 miles	2022
Tenth Street Historic District	1.6 miles	1994
Lancaster Avenue Commercial Historic District	1.8 miles	1994
Texas Theatre	1.8 miles	2003
Medical Dental Building	1.9 miles	2000
W.H. Adamson High School	2.0 miles	2011

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000130 in Record Group 79.
Dallas County	All 159 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.