Pilot Point Commercial Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Denton County · listed in 2007 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Portions of eight blks in downtown Pilot Point centered around the public square, Pilot Point, 76258
When was it listed? August 2007
Category. district
Census division. Pilot Point-Aubrey
Architectural style. Italianate architecture
National Register reference number. 07000893 - 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

31 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Pilot Point Commercial Historic District between 2006 and 2018, burning about 351 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Debris and open burning	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Arson/incendiarism	4
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	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 August 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	40 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
30 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	MULLINS
27 August 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	1600 HARPOLE RD
2 August 2006	Smoking	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
18 August 2013	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	PILOT POINT ASSIST
11 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CANTINA LODGE- 185
10 August 2009	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BLANKS RD
10 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Denton County

Storms near this property

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pilot Point, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Pilot Point	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Denton 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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Jones Farm	5.0 miles	1994
	Johnson Farm	5.2 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000893 in Record Group 79.
Denton County	All 13 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.