Calvert Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“The Calvert Historic District is a historic district which comprises 70 acres (280,000 m2) roughly bounded by Main, Garritt, Pin Oak, Maple, and Barton streets in Calvert, Texas. Contributing properties in the district consist of 82 buildings, one site and two other structures.”
Wikipedia article Calvert Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Robertson County · listed in 1978 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Main, Garritt, Pin Oak, Maple, and Barton Sts., Calvert, 77837
When was it listed? April 1978
Category. district
Census division. Calvert
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 78002978 - 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

65 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Calvert Historic District between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,414 acres in total. 1 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 burning	30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Arson/incendiarism	1
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
21 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	HWY 6 NORTH OF MUD CREEK
19 September 2018	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	W. KEZEE
15 September 2018	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	TIDWELL RD.
10 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	THOMPSON RD
8 August 2017	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 1644
6 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 1644
4 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	3.5 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SOUTH TIDWELL

Every fire recorded in Robertson County

Storms near this property

21 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Calvert, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 4 flash flood, 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
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Calvert	$30,000	Numerous trees were blown down in the city of Calvert.
February 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Calvert	$5,000	Robertson County Sheriff's Department reported that the roof was blown off of a house in Calvert, TX, and that trees were reported down across the county.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Calvert	$5,000	Robertson County Sheriff's Department reported roof damage in the city of Calvert, TX.
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Calvert	$2,000	Power lines were blown down by high winds.
June 2025	Flash Flood	Calvert	$1,000	EM reported water over the roadway at Tidwell Creek and South Main.
May 2024	Hail	Calvert	-	Quarter sized hail was reported just south of Calvert via a social media picture.
April 2019	Tornado (EFU)	Calvert	-	A brief rope tornado occurred approximately 5 miles northwest of the city of Calvert, TX. The tornado was rated EF-0, lasted less than 30 seconds and produced no known damage.
November 2018	Hail	Calvert	-	Broadcast media reported hail slightly larger than quarters in the city of Calvert, TX.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Calvert	-	Calvert Police Department reported several trees blocking a couple of roads near the city of Calvert, TX.
May 2017	Hail	Calvert	-	A social media report indicated quarter size hail in Calvert.
June 2012	Hail	Calvert	-	Penny sized hail was reported north of Calvert.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Calvert	-	Trees down.
October 2006	Flash Flood	Calvert	-	Streets were flooded and closed in Calvert and on FM 1644 between Calvert and Franklin.
June 2004	Flash Flood	Calvert	-	FM 1644 was barricaded due to high water.
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Calvert	-	4 to 6 inch diameter tree limbs were blown down in Calvert.
October 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Calvert	-	Large tree limbs were blown off trees.
October 1998	Flash Flood	Calvert	-	Farm Market Road 1640 was flooded near Calvert and in Franklin.
March 2017	Hail	Calvert	-	no account filed
March 2014	Hail	Calvert	-	no account filed
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Calvert	-	no account filed
April 1996	Hail	Calvert	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Robertson 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
	Hammond House	under 500 feet	1970

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78002978 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Robertson County	All 5 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.