Cisco Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

One of 2 National Register listings published here for Eastland County · listed in 1984 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Conrad Hilton Ave., W. 3rd St., Ave. K, W. 8th and 9th Sts., Cisco, 76437
When was it listed? November 1984
Category. district
Census division. Cisco
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 84000334 - 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

54 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Cisco Historic District between 2006 and 2020, burning about 4,388 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Railroad operations and maintenance	11
Debris and open burning	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	1
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
19 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 168
17 September 2011	Natural	25 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ORSAGE FIRE
7 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	329 IH 20
4 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	KING
28 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GILL
28 August 2011	Railroad operations and maintenance	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BULLARD CEMETARY
20 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	156
7 July 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ATLAS

Every fire recorded in Eastland County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cisco Historic District: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Kaolin, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
	Terra Firma Tile Corp Operations	Clay	Producer
	Waters Pits	Kaolin, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer	1940

Every working recorded in Eastland County

Storms near this property

60 of 64 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cisco, the town this property stands in, in 64 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 39 hail, 10 flash flood, 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 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
June 2007	Lightning	Cisco	$100,000	A lightning strike hit a chemical plant, causing several explosions. One man was killed in the fire that followed.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Cisco	$15,000	Power lines were blown down in Cisco. The local emergency manager estimated a 60 mph wind gust.
June 2009	Hail	Cisco	$15,000	Marble to Softball size hail fell in and southeast of Cisco for approximately 15 minutes.
May 2007	Lightning	Cisco	$15,000	Lightning knocked out power to the county's dispatch center, forcing employees to move to another building.
April 2025	Hail	Cisco	$10,000	Mping report of 2 inch hail.
May 2015	Hail	Cisco	$10,000	Amateur radio reported orange-sized hail just south of Cisco, TX.
August 2005	Flash Flood	Cisco	$10,000	Several vehicles stranded due to high water over roads.
April 2024	Hail	Cisco	$7,000	Amateur radio reported 2 inch hail around 0.9 miles northwest of Cisco.
May 2009	Hail	Cisco	$6,000	Half Dollar to Golfball size hail fell in Cisco.
May 2006	Hail	Cisco	$5,000	Golf ball-size hail reported in Nimrod.
May 2003	Tornado (F0)	Cisco	$5,000	The tornado moved mostly through open country damaging fences and tearing sheet metal off a barn, then moved into southern Stephens County before lifting 3 miles southeast of Eolian. This was reported by a rancher, whose property the tornado passed through.
April 2008	Hail	Cisco	$5,000	no account filed
April 2008	Hail	Cisco	$5,000	no account filed
July 2016	Hail	Cisco	$3,000	Golf ball size hail reported 1 to 2 miles south of Cisco.
June 2008	Flash Flood	Cisco	$3,000	Water was reported over roads in Cisco and a nursing home was flooded in Gorman.
May 2011	Hail	Cisco	$3,000	no account filed
October 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Cisco	$2,000	Trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
June 2011	Hail	Cisco	$2,000	no account filed
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Cisco	$2,000	no account filed
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Cisco	-	The Eastland AWOS station (KGZN) measured a 60 mph (52 knot) wind gust.
May 2023	Hail	Cisco	-	Report received via mPING.
March 2019	Hail	Cisco	-	A social media report indicated nickel-sized hail in the city of Cisco, TX.
July 2016	Hail	Cisco	-	Broadcast media received a picture of ping pong to golf ball sized hail from a viewer just south of Cisco, Texas.
May 2015	Hail	Cisco	-	A public report of ping pong ball sized hail was received on the north side of the super-cell thunderstorm in Cisco, TX.
July 2013	Flood	Cisco	-	The Eastland County Sheriff's Department reported the South Fork of the Leon River was out of its banks. The bridge over County Road 169 was underwater.
July 2013	Heavy Rain	Cisco	-	The Eastland County Sheriff's Department reported rainfall totals across the western part of the county were between and 8 and 11 inches.
May 2012	Hail	Cisco	-	Half dollar sized hail was reported on Interstate 20 between Cisco and Eastland.
April 2012	Hail	Cisco	-	Quarter sized hail was reported in Cisco.
June 2009	Hail	Cisco	-	Nickel size hail fell in Cisco.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Cisco	-	Large tree limbs blown down.
June 2007	Flash Flood	Cisco	-	Street flooding occurred in town and also at the intersection of Highway 6 and Interstate 20.
November 2006	Hail	Cisco	-	Relayed by Eastland County Police Department. Dime-size hail was covering the ground in some areas.
March 2005	Hail	Cisco	-	Nickel size hail reported by spotters at I-20 and Highway 206.
June 2005	Flash Flood	Cisco	-	Officials closed I-20 near the Eastland/Callahan county line due to flooding; relayed by WFO SJT.
August 2005	Flash Flood	Cisco	-	Streets flooded west of Cisco.
August 2005	Flash Flood	Cisco	-	FM 2495 closed between Cisco and Putnam due to flooding. Numerous other streets flooded in Cisco.
May 2003	Tornado (F0)	Cisco	-	A National Weather Service employee observed a small tornado on the ground in open country for several minutes.
October 2002	Flash Flood	Cisco	-	Water over Highways 183 and 246 south of Cisco near the Sabana River.
June 2001	Tornado (F0)	Cisco	-	A brief touchdown was reported. No damage occurred.
April 2000	Flash Flood	Cisco	-	Heavy thunderstorm rains created street flooding in town.
May 1997	Flash Flood	Cisco	-	Five inches of rain resulted in street flooding in town.
June 1995	Hail	Cisco	-	Flooding was reported in low lying areas with some people stranded in vehicles.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Cisco	-	Flooding was reported in low lying areas with some people stranded in vehicles.
April 2023	Hail	Cisco	-	no account filed
May 2015	Hail	Cisco	-	no account filed
April 2008	Hail	Cisco	-	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	Cisco	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Cisco	-	no account filed
August 2003	Hail	Cisco	-	no account filed
March 2002	Hail	Cisco	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Cisco	-	no account filed
February 2000	Hail	Cisco	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Cisco	-	no account filed
February 1997	Flash Flood	Cisco	-	no account filed
June 1997	Hail	Cisco	-	no account filed
March 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Cisco	-	no account filed
March 1997	Hail	Cisco	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Cisco	-	no account filed
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Cisco	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Cisco	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Eastland 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

1 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
	Mobley Hotel	0.3 miles	1981

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84000334 in Record Group 79.
Eastland County	All 2 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.