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One of 59 National Register listings published here for DeWitt County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Eckhardt Stores
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Eckhardt and Main St., Yorktown, 78164
- When was it listed? June 1976
- Category. building
- Census division. Yorktown
- National Register reference number. 76002020 - 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
41 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Eckhardt Stores between 2006 and 2020, burning about 119 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 25 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 2 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | TAMI |
| 8 August 2019 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | PETE DLUGOSCH PLACE |
| 20 August 2017 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CRYSTAL LUIS |
| 16 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | BARGMANN RESIDENCE CRESTVIEW |
| 14 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | VFW POST 836 |
| 11 August 2018 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | NEIMIER PROPERTY |
| 5 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | MICHAEL BERGER |
Storms near this property
19 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yorktown, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 4 hail, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yorktown | $100,000 | Severe thunderstorm winds damaged roofs of homes and businesses and broke windows in homes and vehicles in Yorktown. |
| May 1994 | Hail | Yorktown | $50,000 | Sheriffs Office reports power lines down, trees uprooted and one house struck and set on fire by lightning. Nickle-sized hail fell one mile east of Yorktown near 1345 CST. Additional damage was reported between Cuero and Hocheim near 1415 CST. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yorktown | $30,000 | Downbursts between Yorktown and Westhoff blew over trees and knocked over power lines |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yorktown | $30,000 | Severe thunderstorm winds blew several trees down and damaged fields in the Yorktown area. |
| August 2009 | Lightning | Yorktown | $20,000 | A lightning bolt struck the chimney at the rear of the St. Paul Lutheran Church. |
| March 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yorktown | $10,000 | Trees were reported to have been blown down by severe thunderstorms north and northwest of Yorktown. |
| April 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yorktown | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Flash Flood | Yorktown | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding. There was water over Hwy 119 along with other low water crossings flooded near Smith Creek south of Yorktown. |
| May 2020 | Flash Flood | Yorktown | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing roads in and around Yorktown. CoCoRAHS observers reported 2.5 to 3.5 inches of rain in the area. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Yorktown | - | A thunderstorm produced ping pong ball size hail along Hwy 72 between Yorktown and Cuero. |
| April 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yorktown | - | Thunderstorms produced wind gusts estimated at 65 mph that blew down several trees and caused minor roof damage in Yorktown. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Yorktown | - | A thunderstorm produced nickel to quarter size hail for 15 minutes. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Yorktown | - | Rainfall in thunderstorms over DeWitt and Lavaca Counties averaged 2 to 3 inches, with up to 7 inches between Yorktown and Cuero. Flash flooding was widespread over the central part of the county with many rural roads closed. The Cuero Police Department reported that many of the streets in Cuero were also flooding. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Yorktown | - | Spotty rain totals of 2 to 4 inches in central DeWitt County caused problems between Nordheim and Cuero. SH72 SH119, and FM240 were closed due to flash flooding. |
| August 2007 | Flash Flood | Yorktown | - | Showers and thunderstorms associated with Erin produced general 2 to 3 inch amounts across DeWitt, County. The highest rain totals were 5 inches between Nordheim and Yorktown. Several roads in the western part of the county were closed due to high water, including FM108 and SH119. |
| May 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yorktown | - | The Sheriff's Department reported that severe thunderstorms had blown down trees near Yorktown. |
| November 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Yorktown | - | Skywarn-trained Amateur Radio Operators from the Yorktown area observed a small and short-lived tornado as it touched down near Yorktown. It struck in open country, then lifted back into the thunderstorm base and dissipated. No damage was indicated. The tornado was rated F0 on the Fujita Scale. |
| July 2005 | Funnel Cloud | Yorktown | - | no account filed |
| March 2000 | Hail | Yorktown | - | 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 76002020 in Record Group 79. |
| DeWitt County | All 59 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.