Nolan River Bridge 303-A of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.
From the record
“Nolan River Bridge is a single track girder bridge that crosses the Nolan River located in Blum, Texas. The bridge, constructed in stages between 1899 and 1903, was used for railroad traffic until 1952, after which it was used as for vehicular traffic.”
Wikipedia article Nolan River Bridge 303-A of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 18 National Register listings published here for Hill County · listed in 2012 · category: Structure.
National Register reference number.12001001- 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
158 since 2005
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 158 fires within 5 miles of Nolan River Bridge 303-A of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway
between 2005 and 2020, burning about 4,462 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 18 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
57
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
57
Arson/incendiarism
18
Equipment and vehicle use
17
Smoking
2
Natural
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
Recreation and ceremony
2
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
3 workings within 5 miles of Nolan River Bridge 303-A of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway: 3 producers.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Calcium, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Blum, the town this property stands in, in 42 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 20 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 9 flash flood, 2 tornado.
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.
Several county roads and Farm-to-Market roads were impassible or closed due to high water. Swift water rescues were conducted in Whitney after two apartment complexes were flooded. There were at least 17 high water rescues conducted across the county. At least 40 homes suffered damage due to flood waters, and county roads across the county experienced significant damage.
The National Weather Service in Fort Worth conducted a damage survey and found that a tornado developed west of FM 933 and south of CR 1145. Tree damage was noted as the tornado crossed FM 933 and FM 67 one mile southeast of Blum. The tornado apparently increased in size and intensity after crossing FM 67. A large grain silo was toppled over on CR 1137, roughly 1.5 miles northeast of Blum. Extensive tree and power pole damage was also noted. The path width was over a quarter of a mile at this time. As the tornado crossed County Roads 1136 and 1133, widespread tree damage was noted, as was structural damage to roofs and windows. The tornado then moved across FM 2488 just south of the Johnson County line, where a well-engineered home lost portions of roof decking and a large barn was destroyed. Portions of the barn's metal skin were carried over a mile to the north-northeast. The tornado then crossed into Johnson County.
Hundreds of trees were damaged or blown down across Northern Hill county. Windows were blown out on the west side of a school in Blum and temporary repair structures on a field house were blown away at Itasca High School. Two truck rigs were blown over on Interstate 35W.
The emergency manager reported extensive thunderstorm wind damage in Blum. A storm chaser reported large tree limbs were snapped off along FM 933 north of Blum.
Amateur radio operators observed a brief tornado to the southeast of the city of Blum. Damage to several trees in an open field was the extent of the damage.
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
1 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.
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.
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