Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
From the record
“The Royse City Lodge No. 663 A.F. & A.M. is a historic Freemasonry lodge group and also the name of its historic building, at 102 S. The building, built in 1925, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.”
Wikipedia article Royse City Lodge No. 663 A.F. & A.M., CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 2 National Register listings published here for Rockwall County · listed in 1994 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.94001242- 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
188 since 2005
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 188 fires within 5 miles of Royse City Lodge No. 663 A.F. & A.M.
between 2005 and 2018, burning about 1,206 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
104
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
55
Equipment and vehicle use
16
Misuse of fire by a minor
5
Smoking
4
Arson/incendiarism
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Natural
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
Royse City, the town this property stands in, in 36 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 9 flash flood, 1 tornado.
The reports record 6 injuries. 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.
Five mobile homes were destroyed, 13 sustained major damage, 42 mobile homes sustained minor damage, and power lines were blown down by high winds. Damage was estimated at $816,000.
A church that was being built on Erby Campbell Blvd in Royse City was knocked down by strong thunderstorm winds. Only the wood frame of the building was in place at the time.
The tornado touched down just east of the intersection of Highways 548 and 276. Two barns were completely destroyed and fences were downed. Estimated wind speeds were 80 MPH.
Royse City PD reported multiple flooded roadways in the city including FM 2642 by Verandah, Hwy 66 east of the police station, Crenshaw Road, FM 548 south of Waterscape, and Shaw Road between FM 2652 and FM 35.
Westbound I-30 near FM 36 was closed due to high water, and service roads along I-30 in Royse City were closed due to high water. Flooding was also reported on FMs 552 and 1141.
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.
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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