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Photograph of Hopkins County Courthouse
Photograph by Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Hopkins County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

“The Hopkins County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located in Sulphur Springs, Texas, the seat of Hopkins County. It was designed by San Antonio-based architect James Riely Gordon and constructed in 1894 and 1895.”

Wikipedia article Hopkins County Courthouse (Texas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 1 National Register listings published here for Hopkins County · listed in 1977 · 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. Church and Jefferson Sts., Sulphur Springs, 75482
  • When was it listed? April 1977
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Sulphur Springs
  • Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
  • Architect. James Riely Gordon
  • National Register reference number. 77001453 - 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

43 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Hopkins County Courthouse between 2006 and 2018, burning about 428 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2012Debris and open burning31 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN-6231
5 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 6221
5 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceIVERY
16 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use40 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6328
7 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 4762
29 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service118 E/B
22 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCLAYTON HOMES

Every fire recorded in Hopkins 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 Hopkins County Courthouse: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Sulphur Springs Brick CoFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Hopkins County

Storms near this property

22 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sulphur Springs, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 14 thunderstorm wind, 7 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 1993Thunderstorm WindSulphur Springs$50,000Wind gusts estimated at 85 mph blew down signs in Sulphur Springs and did structural damage to a barn just north of town.
April 1995Thunderstorm WindSulphur Springs$40,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down, a metal roof was blown off a building, a feed store was destroyed, and signs were blown down by high winds.
April 1995Thunderstorm WindSulphur Springs$5,000Trees were uprooted by high winds, and a calf barn was destroyed.
November 1994Thunderstorm WindSulphur Springs$5,000Trees were blown down by high winds.
November 1994Thunderstorm WindSulphur Springs$5,000Trees were blown down by high winds.
October 1993Thunderstorm WindSulphur Springs$5,000Trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds east of Sulphur Springs.
November 1995Thunderstorm WindSulphur Springs$1,000Several sheds were blown down and trees were blown across the road.
April 1995HailSulphur Springs-A tornado was reported over Lake Sulphur Springs on the north side of Sulphur Springs.
April 1995Tornado (F0)Sulphur Springs-A tornado was reported over Lake Sulphur Springs on the north side of Sulphur Springs.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindSulphur Springs-Trees were blown down by high winds.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindSulphur Springs-Trees were blown down by high winds.
November 1995Thunderstorm WindSulphur Springs-Trees were blown down by high winds.
April 1995Thunderstorm WindSulphur Springs-Large tree limbs were blown down by high winds.
November 1994HailSulphur Springs-Trees were blown down by high winds.
April 1995HailSulphur Springs-no account filed
April 1995HailSulphur Springs-no account filed
April 1995HailSulphur Springs-no account filed
April 1995HailSulphur Springs-no account filed
April 1995Thunderstorm WindSulphur Springs-no account filed
May 1994Thunderstorm WindSulphur Springs-no account filed
May 1994Thunderstorm WindSulphur Springs-no account filed
April 1993HailSulphur Springs-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hopkins 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 77001453 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hopkins CountyAll 1 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.