BlockFrom the record
One of 11 National Register listings published here for Palo Pinto County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Palo Pinto County Jail
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Elm St. and 5th Ave, Palo Pinto, 76484
- When was it listed? September 1979
- Category. building
- Census division. Palo Pinto-Santo
- National Register reference number. 79003005 - 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
136 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 136 fires within 5 miles of Palo Pinto County Jail between 2006 and 2020, burning about 9,015 acres in total. 9 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 74 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 23 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 101 BRUSH |
| 7 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CARTER |
| 5 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | THISTLE DEW |
| 27 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 13 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | VICTORY |
| 27 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 101 RANCH |
| 27 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SPLIT ROCK |
| 27 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 24 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this property
49 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Palo Pinto, the town this property stands in, in 49 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 35 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2015 | Hail | Palo Pinto | $10,000 | Numerous reports of golfball sized hail along Highway 180 in Palo Pinto. |
| March 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Palo Pinto | $5,000 | Trees one foot in diameter were blown down near Lone Camp. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Palo Pinto | $4,000 | Golf ball sized hail was reported on Highway 180 just west of Palo Pinto. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Palo Pinto | - | Report from mPING of ping pong ball-sized hail. |
| March 2023 | Hail | Palo Pinto | - | Quarter size hail was reported in the community of Palo Pinto. |
| May 2023 | Tornado (EF1) | Palo Pinto | - | Severe thunderstorms tracked across Palo Pinto County on the evening of May 11th, with one supercell producing a brief EF-1 tornado with maximum winds around 90 mph. The tornado began on a private ranch south of Highway 180. Most of the damage consisted of uprooted trees, with large tree limbs also found across the area. A snapped and twisted tree trunk was found near the start of the track. As the tornado tracked northwest toward Highway 180, similar damage was found to trees along the highway, in addition to damage to an adjacent metal fence along the right of way. The end of the tornado was determined by radar due to inaccessible areas north of Highway 180 near Ro Bell Road. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Palo Pinto | - | Palo Pinto County Sheriff's Department reported nickel sized hail in the city of Palo Pinto. |
| May 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Palo Pinto | - | Trained spotters observed a tornado northeast of Palo Pinto. The tornado produced a batch of severe tree damage over open ranch land. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Palo Pinto | - | Quarter size hail was reported on the west side of Palo Pinto. |
| March 2008 | Hail | Palo Pinto | - | Quarter-size hail was reported on the east side of Possum Kingdom Lake. |
| August 2008 | Flash Flood | Palo Pinto | - | Flooding was reported between the towns of Palo Pinto and Mineral Wells. |
| June 2007 | Flood | Palo Pinto | - | Portions of Highway 29 were closed near the Brazos River. Also, Highway 4 near Buck Creek was closed. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Palo Pinto | - | Trees blown down across Highway 16 near Possum Kingdom Dam. |
| December 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Palo Pinto | - | Large tree limbs were blown down. |
| April 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Palo Pinto | - | 4 inch diameter tree limbs blown down. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Palo Pinto | - | Occurred at Lake Palo Pinto. |
| May 2004 | Hail | Palo Pinto | - | Occurred at Lake Palo Pinto. |
| June 2004 | Hail | Palo Pinto | - | Occurred at Lone Camp. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Palo Pinto | - | Large tree limbs wereblown down at the Worth Ranch. |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Palo Pinto | - | A large tree was blown down. |
| April 1995 | Hail | Palo Pinto | - | A brief tornado touchdown was reported. |
| April 1995 | Hail | Palo Pinto | - | A brief tornado touchdown was reported. |
| April 1995 | Hail | Palo Pinto | - | A brief tornado touchdown was reported. |
| April 1995 | Hail | Palo Pinto | - | A brief tornado touchdown was reported. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Palo Pinto | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Palo Pinto | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Palo Pinto | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Palo Pinto | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Palo Pinto | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Palo Pinto | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Palo Pinto | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Hail | Palo Pinto | - | no account filed |
| March 2000 | Hail | Palo Pinto | - | no account filed |
| March 2000 | Hail | Palo Pinto | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Hail | Palo Pinto | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Palo Pinto | - | no account filed |
| October 1998 | Hail | Palo Pinto | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Palo Pinto | - | no account filed |
| October 1998 | Hail | Palo Pinto | - | no account filed |
| February 1997 | Flash Flood | Palo Pinto | - | no account filed |
| February 1997 | Flash Flood | Palo Pinto | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Palo Pinto | - | no account filed |
| February 1997 | Flash Flood | Palo Pinto | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Palo Pinto | - | no account filed |
| October 1996 | Hail | Palo Pinto | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Hail | Palo Pinto | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Palo Pinto | - | no account filed |
| October 1993 | Hail | Palo Pinto | - | no account filed |
| October 1993 | Hail | Palo Pinto | - | 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.
Listed places nearby
1 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Palo Pinto County Courthouse | 0.7 miles | 1997 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 79003005 in Record Group 79. |
| Palo Pinto County | All 11 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.