Upper Settlement Rural Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Bosque County · listed in 1983 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. E of Granfills Gap off TX 22, Granfills Gap, 76637
When was it listed? July 1983
Category. district
Also known as. Norwegian Settlement of Bosque County TR
Census division. Cranfills Gap
National Register reference number. 83003126 - 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

104 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Upper Settlement Rural Historic District between 2006 and 2020, burning about 1,125 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning	67
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Recreation and ceremony	2
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
6 September 2008	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
4 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	75 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
30 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MUSHIA
29 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HIGH OAKS
25 September 2009	Debris and open burning	35 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	DOUBLE LL
24 September 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CHARLES FORSYTHE
23 September 2017	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	DUNCAN RANCH
22 September 2011	Natural	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	DUNCAN

Every fire recorded in Bosque 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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Tom and Martha Rogstad Farm	1.4 miles	1983
Adolf and Christine Godager Homesite	2.6 miles	1983
Hans and Berthe Reierson House	2.6 miles	1983
Tobias and Wilhelmine Schultz Farm	2.9 miles	1983
Ellingson Farm	3.2 miles	1983
Ole and Ann Pierson Farm	3.3 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83003126 in Record Group 79.
Bosque County	All 40 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.