BlockFrom the record
One of 2 National Register listings published here for Tyler County · listed in 2015 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
Tyler County Courthouse
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 100 W. Bluff St., Woodville, 75979
- When was it listed? May 2015
- Category. building
- Census division. Woodville
- Architectural style. Moderne architecture, Victorian architecture
- National Register reference number. 15000247 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
120 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of Tyler County Courthouse between 1992 and 2019, burning about 806 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 11 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 | 67 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 681 |
| 4 September 2000 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 50 acres | Big Thicket National Park | TFS 681 |
| 4 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 664 |
| 27 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 714 |
| 23 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 19 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 234 |
| 13 September 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Big Thicket National Park | SQUIRREL |
| 13 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 218 |
Storms near this property
53 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodville, the town this property stands in, in 53 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 26 thunderstorm wind, 18 hail, 5 flash flood, 4 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1996 | Flash Flood | Woodville | $250,000 | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Flash Flood | Woodville | $200,000 | no account filed |
| October 1997 | Tornado (F1) | Woodville | $75,000 | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Woodville | $50,000 | The Sheriff's Department reported nickle-sized hail at their office. |
| November 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodville | $50,000 | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Tornado (F1) | Woodville | $50,000 | no account filed |
| May 1994 | Hail | Woodville | $50,000 | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodville | $20,000 | Widespread tree and power line damage occurred around Woodville. Many trees had large branches broken or were up rooted. The vast majority of the trees fell to the east. One mobile home had a tree fall onto it just west of Woodville and the occupant was injured when the tree fell. A building near the intersection of Highway 69 and North Charlton had roofing material removed along with windows blown out. |
| March 1995 | Tornado (F0) | Woodville | $20,000 | A small tornado was reported by a sheriffs deputy. Numerous trees and power lines were knocked down with damage to 65 homes in the Harmony Addition west of Woodville. Numerous trees and power lines were also reported down across the southern part of the county. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodville | $10,000 | A downburst downed numerous trees in Woodville. Two homes were downed by these trees. |
| April 2016 | Tornado (EF1) | Woodville | $10,000 | The tornado touched down southeast of Woodville near highway 287 where tree fall displayed greater convergence and some roofing material was removed from a building. The tornado continued to the southeast snapping numerous softwood trees before dissipating just East of County Road 4250. |
| March 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodville | $10,000 | no account filed |
| March 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodville | $10,000 | no account filed |
| March 1999 | Flash Flood | Woodville | $10,000 | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodville | $10,000 | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodville | $10,000 | no account filed |
| March 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodville | $5,000 | Numerous trees were downed including one that fell on a vehicle along Spring Valley Road from a passing storm. Power was also knocked out to the area hospital. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodville | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodville | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodville | $3,000 | The Tyler County Sheriffs Department reported trees down from Woodville northwest along Highway 287. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodville | $3,000 | The Sheriffs Department of Tyler County reported trees down county wide. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodville | $2,000 | Power lines were blown down when a tree fell on them. |
| November 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodville | $2,000 | Debris was reported on the road from tree damage. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodville | $2,000 | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodville | $2,000 | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodville | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodville | $1,000 | Tyler County Sheriff Office reported trees blown down near Woodville. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodville | $1,000 | Tyler County Sheriff Office reported trees blown down five miles northwest of Woodville. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodville | $1,000 | Jiffy Market and Truck Stop in Woodville reported stop signs bent over from high thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodville | $1,000 | A large tree was blown over a highway east of Woodville. Reported by Tyler County Sheriff Office. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodville | - | The Tyler County 911 dispatcher reported numerous power lines down in the county. |
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodville | - | A few trees were reported down near Woodville. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Woodville | - | Golf ball size hail was reported near Woodville. |
| May 2015 | Flash Flood | Woodville | - | The Tyler County Sheriffs Department reported several roads impassable due to high water. |
| August 2009 | Hail | Woodville | - | Tyler County Sheriff Deputy reported quarter size hail northwest of Woodville. |
| August 2009 | Hail | Woodville | - | Jiffy Market and Truck Stop in Woodville reported golfball size hail fell for 30 minutes. |
| December 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodville | - | Tree blown down. |
| December 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodville | - | One tree blown down. |
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodville | - | Several trees were damaged, and a large tree was uprooted and blown across Highway 256, north of Woodville. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Woodville | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Flash Flood | Woodville | - | no account filed |
| November 2004 | Hail | Woodville | - | no account filed |
| October 2004 | Hail | Woodville | - | no account filed |
| December 2002 | Hail | Woodville | - | no account filed |
| March 2000 | Hail | Woodville | - | no account filed |
| March 2000 | Hail | Woodville | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Woodville | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Woodville | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Hail | Woodville | - | no account filed |
| January 1998 | Hail | Woodville | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Woodville | - | no account filed |
| January 1995 | Hail | Woodville | - | no account filed |
| March 1995 | Hail | Woodville | - | 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 15000247 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Tyler County | All 2 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.