Old McCulloch County Jail

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“The Old McCulloch County Jail is located in Brady, McCulloch County, in the U.S. state of Texas. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places listings in McCulloch County, Texas in 1975, and became a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1976.”
Wikipedia article Old McCulloch County Jail, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 2 National Register listings published here for McCulloch County · listed in 1975 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 117 N. High St., Brady, 76825
When was it listed? April 1975
Category. building
Census division. Brady
Architectural style. Richardsonian Romanesque, Romanesque Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 75002073 - 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

13 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Old McCulloch County Jail between 2005 and 2016, burning about 336 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Natural	2
Debris and open burning	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
30 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
12 August 2016	Natural	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MUTUAL AID/MCCULLOCH CO/BRADY CREEK RANCH
7 July 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BUS STOP
7 July 2011	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GOLF COURSE
13 July 2005	Natural	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ROLLING PLAINS - 9
8 June 2010	Power generation/transmission/distribution	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	JUNK YARD
11 June 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
10 May 2008	Debris and open burning	100 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in McCulloch County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Old McCulloch County Jail: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Silica. 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
	Dry Plant	Silica	Producer

Every working recorded in McCulloch County

Storms near this property

60 of 144 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brady, the town this property stands in, in 144 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 94 hail, 28 thunderstorm wind, 14 flash flood, 5 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
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Brady	$250,000	no account filed
June 1997	Flash Flood	Brady	$200,000	Five inches of rain fell in Brady with heavier rains in southwest McCulloch County. There was widespread street and road flooding throughout the county and Highway 71 was closed. The storms also caused numerous power outages.
October 2018	Tornado (EF0)	Brady	$150,000	National Weather Service storm survey team found evidence of damage confirming an EFO tornado in Brady. Several trees lost limbs. One tree was uprooted, while another tree fell on a home. Some roof damage was also observed.
March 1999	Tornado (F2)	Brady	$100,000	A tornado touched down southeast of Brady, heavily damaging a house and a barn.
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Brady	$50,000	Rain and wind pushed tree limbs into power lines, blowing fuses on the lines.
October 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Brady	$50,000	Thunderstorm winds blew the steeple off the First Baptist Church in Brady, and also damaged the roof of the Church of Christ in southwest Brady. Signs and power lines were also reported downed around the town.
July 2007	Flash Flood	Brady	$20,000	The emergencey management official reported several roads around Brady were closed due to high water up to two feet. He also reported that many small streams were over their banks and several roads across the eastern and central portions of the county were closed because of high water caused by runoff from heavy rain that fell overnight.
May 2002	Tornado (F0)	Brady	$18,000	A supercell thunderstorm produced tornado number five northeast of Brady. This tornado destroyed a barn and a silo.
October 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Brady	$15,000	Strong winds from a severe thunderstorm downed trees throughout the city of Brady.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Brady	$15,000	A downburst struck the town of Brady, causing damage to the north side of the city. Several buildings lost parts of their roofs, while tree and shingle damage was widespread. Hail up to 1 inch in diameter acompanied the storm.
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Brady	$10,000	Part of the roof was lifted off of the police station in Brady.
June 2003	Tornado (F0)	Brady	$10,000	A weak tornado went through a subdivision south of Brady and damaged several homes.
May 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Brady	$10,000	High winds damaged a house, destroyed a shed, and downed a power pole as a storm passed north of Brady.
October 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Brady	$10,000	Winds from a thunderstorm knocked over trees, ripped off tree limbs, and downed power lies south of Brady.
April 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Brady	$10,000	An oil rig was blown over
June 2007	Flash Flood	Brady	$7,000	A few roads around Brady, and several farm to market roads were closed across McCulloch County because of flooding from heavy rains that fell across the county.
May 2001	Lightning	Brady	$7,000	Lightning struck a house in Brady, causing minor damage. The lightning caused a 6 inch hole in the roof, causing rain water to enter the building.
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Brady	$5,000	Power lines were blown down by high winds.
October 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Brady	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds blew the steeple off the First Baptist Church in Brady, and also damaged the roof of the Church of Christ in southwest Brady. Signs and power lines were also reported downed around the town.
October 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Brady	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds blew the steeple off the First Baptist Church in Brady, and also damaged the roof of the Church of Christ in southwest Brady. Signs and power lines were also reported downed around the town.
October 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Brady	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds blew the steeple off the First Baptist Church in Brady, and also damaged the roof of the Church of Christ in southwest Brady. Signs and power lines were also reported downed around the town.
September 2000	Wildfire	Brady	$5,000	no account filed
March 2002	Flash Flood	Brady	$2,000	Heavy rainfall of 2 to 3 inches flooded several streets in the town of Brady. At least one motorist had to be rescued from their vehicle when it became stranded in high water.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Brady	$2,000	A roof on a house was damaged and a metal shed destroyed
March 2007	Flash Flood	Brady	$1,000	Flooding reported on Bridge Street in Brady.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Brady	$1,000	High winds downed large tree limbs across the city of Brady.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Brady	$1,000	Power lines knocked down across the city
July 2025	Flash Flood	Brady	-	The City of Brady Fire Department Rescue Team called to report that they are rescuing people out of flooded homes and people trapped in vehicles due to the flood waters.
May 2024	Hail	Brady	-	Public reported ping pong ball size hail.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Brady	-	Public reported 1 inch tree limbs broken and shingles blown off.
May 2024	Hail	Brady	-	Public reported half dollar size hail.
May 2024	Hail	Brady	-	Public reported golf ball size hail on the south side of Brady.
May 2024	Hail	Brady	-	Public reported hen egg size hail.
May 2024	Hail	Brady	-	A trained spotter reported tennis ball size hail 4 miles south-southeast of Brady.
May 2024	Hail	Brady	-	The public reported tennis ball size hail on the north side of Brady.
May 2024	Hail	Brady	-	The public reported baseball size hail 4.5 miles southwest of Brady.
May 2024	Hail	Brady	-	Public reported quarter size hail.
May 2024	Hail	Brady	-	Public reported quarter size hail was breaking wind shields.
June 2023	Hail	Brady	-	A Storm Chaser reported golf ball size hail 2 miles south-southeast of Brady.
June 2023	Hail	Brady	-	A trained spotter reported baseball size hail in Brady.
June 2023	Hail	Brady	-	The public reported tennis ball size hail in Brady.
June 2023	Hail	Brady	-	Public reported quarter size hail.
June 2023	Hail	Brady	-	Public reported ping pong ball size hail.
June 2023	Hail	Brady	-	Public reported quarter size hail.
June 2023	Hail	Brady	-	Storm chaser reported quarter size hail.
June 2023	Hail	Brady	-	Public reported half dollar size hail.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Brady	-	Law Enforcement reported a large tree had fallen onto the road and required a wrecker to remove it.
April 2021	Hail	Brady	-	A report on social media was received of pea to marble size hail in Brady.
May 2021	Hail	Brady	-	The public reported golf ball size hail just north of Brady.
April 2019	Hail	Brady	-	A picture from social media confirmed the quarter size hail.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Brady	-	Law Enforcement reported wind gusts of 60 mph.
May 2018	Hail	Brady	-	An amateur radio operator reported penny size hail on the west side of Brady.
October 2018	Flash Flood	Brady	-	The sheriff's office reports Crothers Street and West White Street closed in Brady due to flooding.
April 2016	Hail	Brady	-	Law enforcement officials reported quarter size hail along US Highway 87 about 3.5 miles south of Brady.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Brady	-	Law enforcement reported numerous trees blown down across Brady.
May 2016	Hail	Brady	-	A trained spotter reported quarter size hail along US Highway 190 about 5 miles southwest of Brady.
May 2014	Hail	Brady	-	The public reported quarter size hail at the corner of 7th and Cypress Street.
October 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Brady	-	Strong thunderstorm winds broke four inch diameter tree limbs on the south side of Brady.
April 2009	Flash Flood	Brady	-	Texas Department of Transportation indicated that Farm to Market Road 714 over Brady Creek was closed due to flooding.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Brady	-	A roof was blown of a house in the southwest part of Brady.

Every storm recorded in McCulloch County

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

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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	McCulloch County Courthouse	under 500 feet	1977

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75002073 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
McCulloch 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.
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.