Rogers-Drummond House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Franklin County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. SE of Mount Vernon, Mount Vernon, 75457
When was it listed? September 1980
Category. building
Census division. Mount Vernon
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 80004120 - 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

220 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 220 fires within 5 miles of Rogers-Drummond House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 812 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 8 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	138
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	39
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Arson/incendiarism	8
Natural	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Recreation and ceremony	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	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
9 September 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
8 September 1998	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
6 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	6289
29 September 1994	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
28 September 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GUTHRIE
28 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LINDEN - 243
27 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
24 September 2013	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	13-116

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Rogers-Drummond House: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unknown	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this property

8 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mount Vernon, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 6 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Mount Vernon	$2,000	Power lines were blown down by high winds.
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Mount Vernon	$2,000	Tree limbs and power lines were blown down by high winds.
May 1995	Hail	Mount Vernon	-	no account filed
March 1995	Hail	Mount Vernon	-	no account filed
April 1995	Hail	Mount Vernon	-	no account filed
May 1994	Hail	Mount Vernon	-	no account filed
April 1993	Hail	Mount Vernon	-	no account filed
April 1993	Hail	Mount Vernon	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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

2 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
	Mount Vernon Downtown Historic District	6.2 miles	2018
	Edwards, M.L. & Co. Building	6.3 miles	2018

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80004120 in Record Group 79.
Franklin County	All 4 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.