BlockFrom the record
One of 9 National Register listings published here for Lavaca County · listed in 2019 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Yoakum Commercial Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.
The listing
- Address. Roughly bounded by Nelson St., South St., Culpepper St., and Forrest St., Yoakum, 77995
- When was it listed? October 2019
- Category. district
- National Register reference number. 100004095 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
29 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Yoakum Commercial Historic District between 2006 and 2017, burning about 70 acres in total. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 2017 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | OLD CUERO RD |
| 26 July 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1198 CR 323 |
| 20 July 2009 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | COUNTY ROAD 293 |
| 22 May 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | STATE HWY 111 EAST |
| 20 May 2008 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 2 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2017038 |
| 19 March 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 77A |
| 10 March 2011 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 395 |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Baker House | 0.6 miles | 1998 |
 | Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Queen of Peace | 6.2 miles | 1983 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100004095 in Record Group 79. |
| Lavaca 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.