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One of 11 National Register listings published here for Palo Pinto County · listed in 2015 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
State Highway 16, Brazos River Bridge Segment
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 19 structuress as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. TX 16 from 7.4 mi. NE. of US 180 to jct. of TX 16 & TX 254, Graford, 76449
- When was it listed? April 2015
- Category. district
- Also known as. Road Infrastructure of Texas, 1866-1965 MPS
- Census division. Graford
- National Register reference number. 15000153 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
80 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of State Highway 16, Brazos River Bridge Segment between 2006 and 2020, burning about 4,693 acres in total. 8 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 | 37 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 September 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 9 August 2012 | Natural | 1,745 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | DARK VALLEY |
| 3 August 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 150 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | JOHNSON MOUNTAIN FIRE |
| 23 August 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 16 N |
| 21 August 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2353 SOUTH |
| 14 August 2006 | Natural | 13 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | DALTON FIRE |
| 13 August 2006 | Natural | 1,784 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | JOHNSON MOUNTAIN FIRE |
| 12 August 2012 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SOUTH PASTURE |
Storms near this property
57 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Graford, the town this property stands in, in 57 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 36 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 4 lightning, 2 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2015 | Flood | Graford | 1 killed | A 19-year-old male drowned in the Brazos River when the river quickly rose in response to water releases from Possum Kingdom Lake upstream. |
| April 2003 | Tornado (F1) | Graford | $250,000 | Brief tornado touchdown reported on the east side of Possum Kingdom Lake. 25 mobile homes were damaged or destroyed at Sky Camp, Lefty's, and P. K. Lodge. No people were injured. |
| June 2014 | Lightning | Graford | $50,000 | Lightning struck tank batteries on Ragle Road near Graford, igniting them on fire. Three of four tanks were on fire. |
| April 2016 | Hail | Graford | $40,000 | Trained spotters reported golf ball sized hail approximately 12 miles west of Graford on the west shore of Possum Kingdom Reservior. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Graford | $40,000 | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Graford | $35,000 | Two roofs were blown off homes near Graford, there was damage to a business, damage to the high school gym, and trees and power lines were blown down. |
| June 2007 | Flood | Graford | $20,000 | Pecan Branch Creek flooded causing water to reach the steps of several nearby homes. The Division Street Bridge was impassable. |
| June 2014 | Lightning | Graford | $15,000 | Lightning struck a tank battery igniting it on fire off Turpin Road, north of Graford. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Graford | $10,000 | Palo Pinto County Sheriff's Department reported power lines and power poles blown down. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Graford | $10,000 | The roof of a resort hotel in Graford was damaged. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Graford | $9,000 | Social media reported substantial tree and roof damage to a home near Graford. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Graford | $5,000 | Power lines blown down. |
| March 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Graford | $5,000 | Four outbuildings destroyed. |
| May 1998 | Lightning | Graford | $5,000 | A tank battery was set on fire by lightning. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Graford | $5,000 | Strong winds blew down large limbs and signs in town. |
| April 2012 | Hail | Graford | $3,000 | Ping pong ball sized hail was reported at the intersection of Grassy Ridge Road and Highway 337; south of Graford. |
| September 2009 | Hail | Graford | $3,000 | Golfball size hail was reported in the community of Graford. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Graford | $3,000 | Winds of 60 mph were estimated in Graford. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Graford | - | A trained spotter indicated quarter sized hail northwest of Graford. |
| March 2024 | Hail | Graford | - | Social media report of quarter size hail. Time estimated by radar. |
| April 2024 | Hail | Graford | - | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). |
| April 2018 | Hail | Graford | - | A trained spotter reported quarter sized hail approximately 2 miles west of the city of Graford, TX. |
| April 2018 | Hail | Graford | - | A trained spotter reported half-dollar sized hail approximately 2 miles southeast of the city of Graford, TX. |
| April 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Graford | - | A trained spotter reported power lines down and dumpsters blown over in the city of Graford, TX. |
| May 2015 | Flash Flood | Graford | - | Palo Pinto County Sheriff's Department reported that 3 roads were closed including FM 4 near Graford, TX. |
| April 2014 | Hail | Graford | - | Quarter sized hail was reported near Graford. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Graford | - | Quarter sized hail was reported in Graford. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Graford | - | Tree limbs down. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Graford | - | Quarter size hail covering the ground. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Graford | - | Relayed by Parker county sheriff's office. |
| July 2005 | Lightning | Graford | - | Several grass fires started by lightning along I-20 and Highway 254 in Graford. |
| April 2003 | Hail | Graford | - | Golfball to softball size hail occurred for 6 minutes. |
| June 1995 | Hail | Graford | - | High water was over Farm-to-Market Road 4 north of Graford. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Graford | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Graford | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Graford | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Graford | - | no account filed |
| November 2004 | Hail | Graford | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Graford | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Graford | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Graford | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Graford | - | no account filed |
| March 2001 | Hail | Graford | - | no account filed |
| March 2001 | Hail | Graford | - | no account filed |
| March 2001 | Hail | Graford | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Graford | - | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Graford | - | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Hail | Graford | - | no account filed |
| March 2000 | Hail | Graford | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Hail | Graford | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Hail | Graford | - | no account filed |
| March 2000 | Hail | Graford | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Flash Flood | Graford | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Graford | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Graford | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Graford | - | no account filed |
| May 1994 | Hail | Graford | - | 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 15000153 in Record Group 79. |
| Palo Pinto County | All 11 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.