Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
From the record
“The Burton Farmers Gin is a 2- and 3-story cotton gin house located close to the commercial district of Burton, Texas. It has also been known as Burton Farmers Gin Association's Site No. 3.”
Wikipedia article Burton Farmers Gin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 71 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 1991 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.91000712- 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
47 since 1998
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Burton Farmers Gin
between 1998 and 2020, burning about 164 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
19
Equipment and vehicle use
4
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Arson/incendiarism
1
Smoking
1
Other causes
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 National Weather Service names
Burton, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 10 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 2 tornado.
The reports record 4 deaths. 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.
Flood waters inundated homes and there were numerous water rescues in the town of Brenham and around the county. Sections of Highway 36 were impassable due to water over the roadway from Brenham and Somerville. FM 2935 at New Year's Creek was closed due to flooding. All of FM 390 from Burton eastward to FM 105, as well as SH 36 at Highway 290, was closed. There were four fatalities in Washington County. Over 20 inches of rain was measured at one gauge. Damages are estimated.
Severe thunderstorm produced baseball sized hail southeast of Burton near Old Mill Creek Road, with an additional report of golf ball sized hail north of town. High winds also toppled some trees in the Burton area.
A severe thunderstorm damaged several large trees, moved a cargo trailer, and destroyed a metal carport along FM 390 W north of Burton. A NWS survey team estimated these winds at 85 to 90 MPH.
There were numerous reports of damage through much of the southern half of the county from near Carmine to Brenham to the Brazos River as a series of severe thunderstorms moved eastward across the county.
Ping pong size hail was reported by a trained spotter. This storm's southern flank later produced nickel to just under quarter size hail that fell twenty to thirty minutes in the Brenham area. Five hours later, this hail was still on the ground.
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.
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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