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One of 3 National Register listings published here for Burleson County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Ethiopian Star Lodge #308
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 211 County Road 267, Snook, 77878
- When was it listed? November 2025
- Category. building
- Census division. Old River
- National Register reference number. 100012167 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
160 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 160 fires within 5 miles of Ethiopian Star Lodge #308 between 1998 and 2020, burning about 377 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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 | 97 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 33 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 18 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| 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 September 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 9 September 2019 | Natural | 1.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SNOOK MUTUAL AID |
| 9 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1872 |
| 9 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SNOOKMUTUALAID |
| 9 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 6151 CR 296 |
| 5 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BURN BAN VIOLATION |
| 5 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASSFIRE |
| 5 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1962 |
Storms near this property
21 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Snook, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 13 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 3 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2012 | Tornado (EF2) | Snook | $500,000 | The tornado touched down to the northeast of Snook and produced major damage to both a private business and a FedEx shipping facility. A small metal outbuilding was destroyed at the private business while a larger metal outbuilding sustained significant damage. The FedEx facility suffered some minor damage while a few tractor trailers were thrown across the road into a pecan tree orchard. |
| February 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Snook | $250,000 | Strong straight line winds destroyed a large barn and damaged numerous trees, in addition to briefly lifting the roof off of a home before setting it back down. These straight line winds were associated with the rear flank downdraft of a tornadic supercell. |
| February 2012 | Tornado (EF1) | Snook | $150,000 | A tornado touched down in the southeastern portion of Snook and damaged numerous homes and uprooted several trees and damaged numerous others. Additional damage to the south of the tornado track was due to the rear flank downdraft of the storm. |
| March 2022 | Tornado (EF0) | Snook | $100,000 | There was an EF0 tornado in Snook that caused damage to a garage door and also some roof damage to a couple homes and to an apartment complex. |
| April 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Snook | $75,000 | Tornado sheared the roof off one vacant mobile home on FM 60. Another mobile home on CR 269 and a few metal sheds also sustained some roof damage and trees were snapped. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Snook | $15,000 | Numerous trees were reported down across the county. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Snook | $15,000 | Power lines down on FM 50 and FM 60. |
| April 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Snook | $12,000 | Tree down on car off of FM 2039 near Tunis. Portions of CR 128 were closed due to a blown over tree blocking the road. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Snook | $8,000 | Porch destroyed on Highway 60. |
| March 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Snook | $7,000 | A carport cover and hay ring were blown over. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Snook | $5,000 | Trees and powerlines blown down. |
| March 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Snook | $4,000 | Telephone pole downed. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Snook | $3,000 | Powerlines down. |
| March 2005 | Hail | Snook | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 2020 | Hail | Snook | $1,900 | Quarter sized hail was reported by law enforcement. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Snook | - | Trees downed near Snook. |
| April 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Snook | - | Trees were downed in Snook. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Snook | - | A home portable weather station recorded a measured wind gust of 69 mph as a severe thunderstorm moved through Snook. |
| March 2009 | Funnel Cloud | Snook | - | A funnel cloud was reported in Snook. |
| April 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Snook | - | Trees down on FM 2039 one mile north of Highway 60. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Snook | - | no account filed |
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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100012167 in Record Group 79. |
| Burleson County | All 3 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.