Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
From the record
“The George Washington Baines House is located in the city of Salado, Bell County, Texas. It was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1981 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.”
Wikipedia article George Washington Baines House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 72 National Register listings published here for Bell County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.83003078- 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
96 since 2003
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 96 fires within 5 miles of George Washington Baines House
between 2003 and 2017, burning about 2,138 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
55
Equipment and vehicle use
21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
14
Arson/incendiarism
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
Natural
1
Smoking
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of George Washington Baines House: 1 past producer.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Salado, the town this property stands in, in 45 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 26 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 2 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.
Many social media reports of large hail ranging up to 4 inch in diameter hail was reported in and around the Salado, TX area. This was in addition to the 5.6+ inch hail stone that is noted separately. The large hail fell for several minutes.
Runoff from heavy rains caused Mills Creek to flood portions of Salado, including Mill Creek Drive and Smith Bluff. About 30 homes were evacuated and one man had to be rescued from his rooftop. A water rescue was required on the Little River, and Salado Creek flooded the Interstate 35 access roads and the bridge on Main Street by four feet of water. One vehicle was washed off the road and a high water rescue was needed.
A social media picture indicated a 5.6+ inch diameter hail stone in Salado, TX. Swift actions were taken by NWS Fort Worth and the IBHS (Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety) to preserve and document this record hailstone. The IBHS officially measured the hailstone at: Maximum diameter 5.676 in, Mass 409.3 g, Volume 29.5 in3 making it the largest hail stone on record in the FWD CWA to date. Other large hailstones also fell in this same area.
Two foot diameter trees were snapped in half along Highway 95 in Little River Academy. Numerous signs and billboards were blown down between Salado and Little River Academy. Trees fell on and damaged cars in Little River.
Numerous trees had large limbs broken. A few trees were uprooted or snapped at the trunk. Several storage buildings were damaged, and a few homes suffered minor roof damage. Additional homes were damaged by falling trees and limbs.
Five bridges in Salado were closed for a few hours due to high water that covered each bridge with up to 3 feet of water. The South Ridge and Chisholm Trail bridges in Mill Creek, the Smith Bluff bridge east of Mill Creek, and two access road bridges along Interstate 35 were all closed down.
Two flooded bridges along the access road of Interstate 35 in Salado were reopened during the afternoon hours, but the South Ridge bridge and Chisholm Trail bridges in Mill Creek remained closed until the following morning when the water finally drained. The closure of these two bridges cut off residents' access through the subdivision.
Water was reported over a street in town, and over FM 1123 outside of Salado. On Church Street, south of the fire department, barricades were up due to high water.
Thunderstorms developed late in the afternoon ahead of a cold front and moved slowly southeast through parts of north central and northeast Texas during the evening hours.
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
6 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.
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.
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