BlockFrom the record
One of 5 National Register listings published here for Shackelford County · listed in 1979 · category: Site.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Fort Griffin Brazos River Bridge
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. NE of Fort Griffin, Fort Griffin, 76430
- When was it listed? October 1979
- Category. site
- Census division. Albany
- National Register reference number. 79003006 - 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
31 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Fort Griffin Brazos River Bridge between 2005 and 2012, burning about 3,794 acres in total. 9 started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 16 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 30 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 12 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 18 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 12 August 2010 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 40 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CALDWELL |
| 12 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CALDWELL # 2 |
| 11 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 11 August 2006 | Natural | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this property
1 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Griffin, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1993: 1 hail. 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 1993 | Hail | Fort Griffin | - | 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
2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | State Highway 23 Bridge at the Clear Fork of the Brazos River | 0.5 miles | 1996 |
 | Fort Griffin | 0.9 miles | 1971 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 79003006 in Record Group 79. |
| Shackelford 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.