Oil Springs Oil Field Discovery Well

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Nacogdoches County · listed in 1977 · category: Site.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 structuress, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 4 mi. SE of Woden, Woden, 75961
When was it listed? November 1977
Category. site
Census division. Chireno-Martinsville
National Register reference number. 77001461 - 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

80 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Oil Springs Oil Field Discovery Well between 1992 and 2019, burning about 5,366 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 14 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	40
Arson/incendiarism	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Natural	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Fireworks	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
8 September 1998	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 September 2010	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	8161 FM 226 WILDLAND
3 September 2015	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	7097
28 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
26 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
26 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
25 September 1993	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
25 September 1993	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Nacogdoches County

Storms near this property

10 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woden, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1993 and 2020: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 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
March 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Woden	$50,000	Thunderstorm winds downed trees in the Woden community. One tree crashed through the roof of a mobile home on FM 3228 which trapped a 91 year old woman in the home. She was rescued by EMS units but was not injured. Downed trees and powerlines were also reported across the county from FM 1275 to FM 95.
September 2008	Tornado (EF0)	Woden	$50,000	A roof was ripped off a metal building and insulation was strewn into trees. Minor damage was observed to a trailer 1/8th of a mile southeast where the weak EF0 tornado first touched down. Several trees were damaged about 1/8th of a mile northwest of the circulation center.
April 2020	Hail	Woden	-	Photos of golf ball size hail that fell in the Woden community were submitted to social media.
September 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Woden	-	Trees and power lines were blown down in Woden near the Elementary/High School.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Woden	-	Trees were downed in the Woden Community.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Woden	-	A tree was downed on a poweline on CR 552 south of Woden, Texas.
June 2008	Hail	Woden	-	Nickel sized hail covered the ground with some larger stones in the town of Woden, Texas.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Woden	-	About 15 trees were downed between Woden and Chireno, Texas.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Woden	-	Several large trees down.
May 1993	Hail	Woden	-	Dime-size hail was reported near Woden .

Every storm recorded in Nacogdoches 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 record	The nomination case file for reference 77001461 in Record Group 79.
Nacogdoches County	All 22 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.