Petroleum Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.

From the record

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Gregg County · listed in 2019 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. 202 E. Whaley St., Longview, 75601
When was it listed? March 2019
Category. building
Census division. Longview
National Register reference number. 100003494 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

360 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 360 fires within 5 miles of Petroleum Building between 1992 and 2020, burning about 840 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 11 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
Debris and open burning	139
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	130
Power generation/transmission/distribution	17
Recreation and ceremony	16
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Misuse of fire by a minor	13
Arson/incendiarism	11
Natural	9
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Smoking	5
Fireworks	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 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HARRISON 22:15
9 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	17-0012699
7 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 226
7 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 228
6 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	16-24851
6 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	6182
6 September 2014	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	14-0011382
6 September 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 636

Every fire recorded in Gregg 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 Petroleum Building: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
A & T Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Ingram Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Norton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Gregg County

Storms near this property

60 of 118 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Longview, the town this property stands in, in 118 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 49 hail, 42 thunderstorm wind, 22 flash flood, 4 lightning. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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
September 2007	Lightning	Longview	1 killed	A 53 year old man was struck and killed by lightning on Cox Lane. Victim was located approximately 25 feet from a large tree that was struck by lightning.
September 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Longview	1 hurt, $100,000	Numerous trees and power lines were blown down. A few trees fell on top of homes in town. One injury was reported when a tree fell on a home trapping the person inside.
January 1998	Hail	Longview	$1,000,000	Grapefruit to softball size hail went through the roofs of houses and mobile homes. Two to three inch hail drifts remained along Hwy 300 between Longview and Gilmer 17 hours after it fell.
July 1996	Flash Flood	Longview	$500,000	no account filed
January 1998	Hail	Longview	$125,000	Numerous homes suffered severe roof damage resulting in water damage to the interior of homes.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Longview	$50,000	Trees down on a home in town.
May 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Longview	$50,000	Thunderstorm winds blew a tree down onto a house in northwest Longview.
May 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Longview	$50,000	Trees, signs, and traffic lights were blown down by thunderstorm winds. Some windows were blown out.
May 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Longview	$50,000	Trees were blown down onto Highway 300 and roofs were damaged.
September 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Longview	$50,000	Thunderstorm winds blew down three utility poles and some large tree limbs.
July 2007	Flash Flood	Longview	$25,000	Numerous streets and the intersection of Loop 281 and Hwy. 80 under water. A tree fell on top of a home in town resulting in moderate damage to the home. The prolonged heavy rain and the super saturation of the soil allowed the tree to fall as the weight of the tree was too heavy for the root system to support it.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Longview	$25,000	The roof to a manufacturing plant was damaged.
September 2013	Flash Flood	Longview	$15,000	Excessive heavy rainfall resulted in two cars being stranded at the intersection of High Street and Common Street. The intersection of Nelson and Green Streets was also closed due to high water.
August 2005	Lightning	Longview	$15,000	Lightning struck a large oak tree on Pegues Street near 4th Street. The tree split and crashed down onto a home.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Longview	$12,000	Loaded utility trailer picked up and blown 100 feet. Large tree limbs up to 4 inches in diameter broken off. Several large trees toppled.
April 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Longview	$10,000	A tree was downed on a house in the 400 Block of South Jean Street.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Longview	$10,000	Roofs were damaged by winds at the Bobo Lumber Yard. Some trees were also downed on powerlines along Hwy 31.
January 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Longview	$10,000	no account filed
June 2011	Lightning	Longview	$5,000	Lightning struck the Greggton United Methodist Church and tore bricks off the church.
November 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Longview	$5,000	A home suffered roof damage from strong winds on North Gilmer Rd.
March 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Longview	$5,000	Several trees were toppled in town leading to numerous power outages.
May 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Longview	$5,000	Trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
November 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Longview	$5,000	Trees blown down by high winds, blocked some streets. There was also roof damage from falling trees.
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Longview	$3,000	A carport was lifted off its concrete foundation and several windows were blown out of a house.
August 2005	Flash Flood	Longview	$1,000	Water was over the roadway near the Jones Road Bridge.
April 2026	Hail	Longview	-	Quarter size hail reported in Longview, via Mping.
March 2025	Hail	Longview	-	Penny size reported in Longview via Mping.
April 2025	Hail	Longview	-	Ping pong ball size hail fell at the Longview Police Department.
April 2025	Hail	Longview	-	Ping pong ball size hail fell near Christus Good Shepherd Medical Center in Longview.
April 2025	Hail	Longview	-	Quarter size hail fell along West Avalon Avenue in Longview.
August 2025	Flash Flood	Longview	-	Flooding reported with high water covering the roadway on Green Street.
August 2025	Flash Flood	Longview	-	Flash flooding reported with a high water rescue near Green Street and Nelson Street.
February 2024	Hail	Longview	-	Baseball size hail reported via social media.
April 2023	Hail	Longview	-	Ping pong ball size hail fell just southeast of Longview.
April 2023	Hail	Longview	-	Golfball size hail fell throughout much of Longview.
July 2021	Flash Flood	Longview	-	Flooding reported at the intersection of Green and Cotton Street.
July 2021	Flash Flood	Longview	-	Flooding reported at the intersection of Cotton and High Street. Several water rescues were required for stranded motorists in the flood waters.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Longview	-	Trees were downed on Sabine Street in South Longview.
March 2018	Hail	Longview	-	Quarter size hail in the southeast sections of Longview.
October 2014	Hail	Longview	-	Ping pong ball sized hail was reported just southeast of town.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Longview	-	A tree was downed on Georgia Richie Road just west of town.
March 2008	Flash Flood	Longview	-	Three foot of water on road near Highway 80 and Green Street.
March 2008	Flash Flood	Longview	-	High water rescue under a bridge on High Street and Cotton Street.
July 2007	Flash Flood	Longview	-	Multiple roads flooded and closed throughout the county.
September 2007	Hail	Longview	-	Penny sized hail fell in Longview.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Longview	-	Trees and power lines were downed across the northern portion of the county.
June 2007	Flash Flood	Longview	-	Excessive heavy rainfall resulted in flash flooding which washed out a bridge in the northern portion of the county. Several secondary roads were also under water as well.
July 2005	Hail	Longview	-	Hail fell on the northeast side of town on Loop 281.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Longview	-	Power lines were downed along Hwy 300.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Longview	-	Trees were downed.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Longview	-	Several trees were downed.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Longview	-	Trees and power lines downed on the north side of town.
August 2003	Flash Flood	Longview	-	Numerous streets flooded and impassible in the northwest portion of the city.
April 2003	Lightning	Longview	-	Cloud to ground lightning struck an oil storage tank in northeast Longview just south of FM 2751 and Highway 250 Intersection. The oil tank blew apart and caught fire. The explosion was heard as far as 5 miles away.
June 2003	Flash Flood	Longview	-	Several streets were closed due to high water.
December 2002	Flash Flood	Longview	-	Eastman Road one mile south of Highway 80 and Houston Street at 1104 was underwater from excessive heavy rains.
April 2002	Flash Flood	Longview	-	Numerous city streets underwater.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Longview	-	Several large trees down.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Longview	-	Power lines down across the city.
August 1999	Hail	Longview	-	Along Hwy 80.

Every storm recorded in Gregg 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
Whaley House	under 500 feet	1980
Longview National Bank	under 500 feet	2023
McWilliams Building	0.1 miles	2019
Frank Taylor and Kate Womack Rembert House	0.3 miles	2011
Northcutt House	0.4 miles	1978
Nuggett Hill Historic District	0.8 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100003494 in Record Group 79.
Gregg 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.
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.