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Randlett House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“The Randlett House is located in Lancaster, Texas, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 11, 1978.”

Wikipedia article Randlett House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 159 National Register listings published here for Dallas County · listed in 1978 · 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. 401 S. Centre St., Lancaster, 75146
  • When was it listed? August 1978
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Southwest Dallas
  • Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
  • National Register reference number. 78002920 - 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

57 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Randlett House between 2006 and 2016, burning about 164 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined41
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
28 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceVALLEY VIEW
27 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceJJ LEMMON
19 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceTIOGA CT
13 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE
1 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
8 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Every fire recorded in Dallas County

Storms near this property

31 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lancaster, the town this property stands in, in 31 storm reports between 1993 and 2021: 10 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 7 tornado, 4 flash flood. 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
July 2004Flash FloodLancaster$17,000,000175-200 homes were flooded, numerous streets were completely flooded, people were stranded in cars, andnumerous high water rescues were needed. The police station was also flooded. Lancaster recieved over 7 inches of rain in 12 hours.
January 1996Tornado (F2)Lancaster$750,000no account filed
September 2006Thunderstorm WindLancaster$200,000Four mobile homes and two homes under construction were damaged one mile west of Seagonville. In addition, trees were uprooted and power lines downed throughout the county. Damage was reported along the North Central Expressway in northeast Dallas; in an area encompassed by Interstate 35 East to the north, Loop 12 to the west, and Interstate 30 to the south. Similar damage was also reported in the southern part of the county. Power was knocked out to about 4,500 customers.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindLancaster$30,000An emergency manager reported power lines down, large trees down, and fence damage along and near Bluegrove Road.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindLancaster$30,000Straight-line winds up to 95 mph damaged a church on Dewberry Blvd in Lancaster. Nearly the entire roof of the church was peeled off.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindLancaster$25,000A 69 MPH wind gust was reported by the Lancaster, TX Regional Airport Automated Weather Observation System. A damage report was received from an unknown location in the city of large tree limbs down and a roof peeled off a building.
September 2007Flash FloodLancaster$25,000Several streets were flooded in Lancaster, and at least one home was flooded. Interstate 35 was flooded as well.
June 2000Flash FloodLancaster$25,000Seven homes were flooded.
April 2008Thunderstorm WindLancaster$20,000Fences, roof shingles, power lines, and trees were blown over or damaged by high winds.
July 1996Thunderstorm WindLancaster$20,000no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindLancaster$15,000A 60 MPH wind gust was measured on the northern side of Lancaster. A hotel awning was torn off and trees and power lines were blown down in Hutchins.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindLancaster$3,000Trees and power lines were reported down in Lancaster.
January 1996Thunderstorm WindLancaster$2,000no account filed
January 1996Thunderstorm WindLancaster$2,000no account filed
April 2017HailLancaster-A social media report indicated quarter-sized hail in Lancaster.
June 2004Flash FloodLancaster-Streets in town were flooded.
October 1994Tornado (F0)Lancaster-A brief tornado touchdown occurred.,,, , ,
April 1994HailLancaster-A brief tornado touchdown was reported.
April 1994HailWest Lancaster-Golf ball-size hail was reported at Beltline Road and Interstate 35.
October 1994Tornado (F0)Lancaster-A brief tornado touchdown took shingles off a house and damaged trees.
April 2021HailLancaster-no account filed
January 1996Tornado (F1)Lancaster-no account filed
January 1996Tornado (F0)Lancaster-no account filed
January 1996Tornado (F1)Lancaster-no account filed
January 1996Tornado (F0)Lancaster-no account filed
October 1996HailLancaster-no account filed
October 1996HailLancaster-no account filed
April 1996HailLancaster-no account filed
April 1994HailLancaster-no account filed
October 1993HailLancaster-no account filed
October 1993HailLancaster-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dallas 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

3 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 PropertyDistance Listed
W.A. Strain Farm-Strain House (Boundary Increase)0.2 miles2001
W. A. Strain House0.4 miles1978
Capt. R. A. Rawlins House0.7 miles1978

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 78002920 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dallas CountyAll 159 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.