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One of 6 National Register listings published here for Burnet County · listed in 2011 · category: District · built in 1937.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Park Road 4 Historic District
Built in 1937. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.
The listing
- Address. Park Rd. 4 from US 281 to TX 29 & Longhorn Cavern State Park, Burnet, 78611
- When was it listed? February 2011
- Category. district
- Census division. Burnet
- When was it built? 1937
- National Register reference number. 10001221 - 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
107 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Park Road 4 Historic District between 2007 and 2020, burning about 1,393 acres in total. 5 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 | 62 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 22 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 72 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | YUCCA |
| 28 September 2011 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | PARK RD 4 (11-0116) |
| 27 September 2011 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HOOVER VALLEY ASSIST |
| 26 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BINGHAM |
| 20 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 16-027513 |
| 6 August 2010 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | PARK ROAD 4 |
| 31 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | HVVFD FIRE |
| 30 August 2011 | Smoking | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | LOOK OUT MNT. |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 18 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Park Road 4 Historic District: 7 producers, 7 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 2 past producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper, Fluorine-Fluorite, Vermiculite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dow Quarry | Dolomite | Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Pavitte Prospect | Copper, Silver, Gold | Occurrence | ||
| Spring Creek Prospect | Zinc, Fluorine-Fluorite, Silver, Gold, Molybdenum | Occurrence | Fluorite, Galena, Molybdenite, Pyrite, Sphalerite | |
| White Eagle Prospect | Copper, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite | Past Producer | Vein | |
| Friedsom | Vermiculite | Unknown | ||
| Reed Prospect | Vermiculite | Occurrence | Residual | |
| Fluorite Prospect | Fluorine-Fluorite | Occurrence | Fluorite | |
| Fluorite Prospect | Fluorine-Fluorite | Occurrence | Fluorite | |
| Gibbs | Fluorine-Fluorite | Past Producer | ||
| Sheridan Prospect | Copper | Occurrence |
Storms near this property
51 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burnet, the town this property stands in, in 51 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 22 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 8 flash flood, 5 tornado. The reports record 2 deaths. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | Flash Flood | Burnet | 2 killed, $6,000,000 | Slow-moving thunderstorms brought heavy rain for several hours to Burnet on the morning of July 5. Burnet Municipal Airport reported 8.67 inches of rain. An LCRA gauge in Burnet reported 11.67 inches. The torrential rainfall caused the rapid rise of Hamilton Creek. Additional inundation also occurred along Daugherty Branch and Haynie Branch in Burnet. Homes, businesses, and other buildings along Hamilton Creek experienced up to 7 ft of inundation. Oak St. in the northwestern part of the city was especially hard hit by the swollen Hamilton Creek. Around a dozen homes along the road were damaged, primarily near 7th and 8th Street. One house was torn off its foundation and was carried by floodwaters onto the opposite side of the street. Several businesses were flooded along South Water St. A 57 year old man was swept by floodwaters while commuting through Burnet along US 281. His body was recovered about a quarter mile away from his vehicle along Hamilton Creek. Most of the units at the Hamilton Creek Manor housing complex were impacted by floodwaters. Fields at YMCA of the Highland Lakes on the south side of Burnet were damaged by flooding with fences washed out and dugouts damaged. Pafford Place Assisted Living was heavily damaged. An 85 year old man at the facility drowned in the flooding. Seven others were successfully evacuated from Pafford Place. Parts of Burnet Municipal Airport experienced 5 to 7 ft of inundation, resulting in damage to PAPI lighting and the runway. Several homes were inundated along Delaware Creek to the west and southwest of Burnet with washouts on roads. Across the county first responders rescued at least 63 people. The county Emergency Manager estimated more than 400 homes were affected and the damages were at least $6 million. |
| October 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burnet | $150,000 | Severe thunderstorm winds blew the roofs off homes around Burnet. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burnet | $100,000 | Roofs were torn off homes by severe thunderstorm winds estimated at 50 to 60 knots. |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burnet | $100,000 | Trees were split and knocked over into homes by severe thunderstorm winds. An aircraft was flipped onto its top at the Burnet airport by the winds. |
| March 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burnet | $100,000 | Severe thunderstorm winds destroyed several roofs and collapsed a metal building in Burnet. |
| November 2000 | Tornado (F0) | Burnet | $80,000 | A small and short-lived tornado was observed by the public as it touched down near Burnet. It damaged two homes and some barns and around a dozen trees before lifting and dissipating. |
| October 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burnet | $50,000 | Thunderstorms produced a wind gust measured at 54 knots as they struck the Burnet Municipal Airport. Moving northeastward near 25 mph, they produced winds estimated as high as 60 knots, blowing down trees and power lines in the city of Burnet, and tearing the roof off a barn. Sporadic wind damage persisted as the storms continued to knock over trees and power lines between Burnet and Briggs. |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burnet | $20,000 | Trees were uprooted and roofs were damaged between Burnet and Bertram. |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burnet | $20,000 | Tree and roof damage was indicated. |
| May 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Burnet | $10,000 | Storm survey revealed a small tornado crossed a wooded area and partially struck a mobile home on Overlook Trail. There was light damage to a parked vehicle in front of the home. A small porch was damaged and lumber was thrown into the front window. A large two by four was found stuck into a pop up travel camper next to the mobile home. Numerous trees were damaged. |
| June 1995 | Tornado (F1) | Burnet | $10,000 | Small tornado touched down briefly, causing minor building damage. |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burnet | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burnet | $5,000 | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 80 mph that damaged the Metal Mart building east of Burnet. A garage door on the building was blown in by the wind and sheet metal was strewn about. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burnet | $5,000 | The Burnet County Sheriff's Office reported a thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 58 mph that caused minor roof damage to some homes. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burnet | $5,000 | Multiple trees were reported down or snapped across the county. A large bow echo moved through the county and produced wind damage mainly through the central sections of the county from Granite Shoals, to Marble Falls, to Burnet, and over to Bertram. |
| February 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burnet | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2025 | Hail | Burnet | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail southwest of Bertram. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Burnet | - | A thunderstorm produced half dollar size hail in Burnet. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Burnet | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Burnet. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Burnet | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail east of Burnet. |
| May 2023 | Flash Flood | Burnet | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that flooded a road southeast of Burnet. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Burnet | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail east of Burnet. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Burnet | - | A thunderstorm produced two inch diameter hail east of Burnet. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Burnet | - | A thunderstorm produced egg size hail on Hwy 29 east of Burnet. |
| May 2023 | Flash Flood | Burnet | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to street flooding in Burnet. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Burnet | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Burnet. |
| November 2016 | Flood | Burnet | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused minor flooding sending water over the road at the intersection of CR340 and CR340A east of Hamilton Creek. |
| May 2015 | Flash Flood | Burnet | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused Hamilton Creek to flood a road. |
| October 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burnet | - | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 58 mph that blew down some small trees. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Burnet | - | Thunderstorms produced a general 2 to 3 inch rain over much of Llano, Burnet, Blanco and Williamson Counties. Up to 4 inches was reported in the extreme northwest part of Burnet County. Flash flooding closed most rural roads in that corner of the county, including FM2341. |
| May 2007 | Flash Flood | Burnet | - | Between 4 and 6 inches of rain fell in thunderstorms along the Burnet-Lampasas County line in the northwest part of Burnet County. Flash flooding closed US281 through the early morning hours. Many rural roads, including FM2341, were also closed. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burnet | - | Severe thunderstorm winds damaged a barn and destroyed a shed. |
| May 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Burnet | - | The Burnet County Sheriff's Department reported that a second tornado touched down briefly near Oatmeal. It did not cause any visible damage. |
| May 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Burnet | - | A small tornado was spotted by the Burnet County Sheriff's Department as it touched down briefly in an open field near Lake Victor. No damage was noted. |
| August 2005 | Flash Flood | Burnet | - | Thunderstorms over the north half of Burnet County dropped between 1 and 2 inches or rain, with up to 4 inches falling between Burnet and Okalla near the Lampasas County line. High water closed FM963 through the late morning. |
| September 2005 | Flash Flood | Burnet | - | Showers and thunderstorms produced between 1 and 2 inches of rain over northwestern Burnet County. The heaviest rain fell north of SH29 and west of FM693, where up to 4 inches was reported. In the mid morning, the Sheriff's Department closed US281 around 10 miles north of Burnet due to flash flooding. |
| April 2021 | Hail | Burnet | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Funnel Cloud | Burnet | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Burnet | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Burnet | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Burnet | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Burnet | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Burnet | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Burnet | - | no account filed |
| February 2004 | Hail | Burnet | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Burnet | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Burnet | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Hail | Burnet | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Burnet | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Burnet | - | no account filed |
| February 1998 | Hail | Burnet | - | 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.
Listed places nearby
3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | State Highway 29 Bridge at the Colorado River | 5.1 miles | 1996 |
 | Burnet County Courthouse | 6.1 miles | 2000 |
 | Austin and Northwestern Railroad Historic District-Fairland to Llano | 6.4 miles | 1997 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 10001221 in Record Group 79. |
| Burnet County | All 6 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.