Medio Creek Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Bee County · listed in 1988 · category: Structure.

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 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. CR 241, Normanna, 78142
When was it listed? October 1988
Category. structure
Census division. Pettus-Pawnee
National Register reference number. 88002000 - 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

71 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Medio Creek Bridge between 2004 and 2019, burning about 1,258 acres in total. None 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	30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Smoking	6
Arson/incendiarism	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
4 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
19 September 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRUNWALD
6 August 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BILL DIRKS
18 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	NORMANNA FIRE
18 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	1465
16 August 2008	Smoking	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
3 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MANSKER
22 July 2008	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Bee County

Storms near this property

12 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Normanna, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 7 hail, 3 flash flood, 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
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Normanna	$5,000,000	NWS Storm Survey team concluded a macroburst of straight line winds impacted Bee County. The greatest concentration of damage occurred from 10 miles northwest of Beeville to Beeville to Skidmore to east of Papalote. Peak wind speeds were estimated to be between 80 and 85 mph in Beeville and between 85 to 90 mph in Skidmore. This caused extensive and widespread tree damage, crop damage, and numerous bent or blown down utility poles. Many homes and mobile homes were damaged, mainly from falling tree limbs. A grain silo was blown down and damage occurred to the Bonnie plant farm on the south side of Beeville. Large trees were blown down in Skidmore.
April 2017	Hail	Normanna	$5,000	MPING report received of half dollar sized hail in Normanna.
April 2025	Hail	Normanna	-	Bee County EMC reported 1 hail.
May 2020	Hail	Normanna	-	Quarter sized hail fell in Normanna.
October 2009	Flash Flood	Normanna	-	Road closed at Dickerson and Carr Road due to high water over the road. High water rescue performed at Carr Road and Charco Road intersection.
September 2002	Flash Flood	Normanna	-	Water on road
May 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Normanna	-	The Sheriff's Office reported power lines down near Beeville and several large trees down near Normanna.
March 2009	Hail	Normanna	-	no account filed
March 2007	Hail	Normanna	-	no account filed
November 2001	Hail	Normanna	-	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	Normanna	-	no account filed
September 1998	Flash Flood	Normanna	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bee 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88002000 in Record Group 79.
Bee County	All 13 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.