Mount Vernon Downtown Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.

From the record

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Franklin County · listed in 2018 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by RR tracks, Jackson, Taylor & Holbrook Sts., Mount Vernon, 75457
When was it listed? November 2018
Category. district
Census division. Mount Vernon
National Register reference number. 100003140 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

33 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Mount Vernon Downtown Historic District between 1994 and 2020, burning about 422 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
Debris and open burning	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
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
29 September 1994	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
28 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 3090
6 August 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	6114
31 August 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
22 August 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	85 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 210
22 August 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	22 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 284
31 July 2001	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 84
1 July 1998	Arson/incendiarism	110 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this property

8 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mount Vernon, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 6 hail, 2 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 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Mount Vernon	$2,000	Power lines were blown down by high winds.
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Mount Vernon	$2,000	Tree limbs and power lines were blown down by high winds.
May 1995	Hail	Mount Vernon	-	no account filed
March 1995	Hail	Mount Vernon	-	no account filed
April 1995	Hail	Mount Vernon	-	no account filed
May 1994	Hail	Mount Vernon	-	no account filed
April 1993	Hail	Mount Vernon	-	no account filed
April 1993	Hail	Mount Vernon	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
	Edwards, M.L. & Co. Building	under 500 feet	2018
	Rogers-Drummond House	6.2 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100003140 in Record Group 79.
Franklin County	All 4 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.